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Intra-firm conflicts and interfirm competition

Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred - 2009

We study interaction effects between intra-firm conflicts and interfirm competition on a duopolistic market with seller … firms employing one or more agents and implementing tournament incentives. We show that inter-firm competition leads to …

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Productivity in contests: Organizational culture and personality effects

Andersson, Ola; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Miettinen, Topi; … - 2010

We study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal group design, we prime subjects to two alternative organizational cultures emphasizing either self-enhancement...

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On the incentive effects of uncertainty in monitoring agents: a theoretical and experimental analysis

Avrahami, Judith; Güth, Werner; Kareev, Yaakov; Uske, … - 2007

When two or more agents compete for a bonus and the agents' productivity in each of several possible occurrences depends stochastically on (constant) effort, the number of times that are checked to assign the bonus affects the level of un-certainty in the selection process. Uncertainty, in turn,...

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Intrafirm conflicts and interfirm price competition

Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred - 2011

We study interfirm price competition in the presence of horizontal and vertical intrafirm conflicts in each firm …

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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness: Gender-task stereotypes

Große, Niels Daniel; Riener, Gerhard - 2010

comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that … remaining gender differences for entry into competition are driven by gender-task stereotypes. As a robustness check, we explore …

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Tournament Fever and the Perception of StrategicUncertainty in Performance Contests

Uske, Tobias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

As firms implement tournament bonus reward schemes, mainly the idea is to introduce competition amongst their agents in …

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On the Incentive Effects of Uncertainty in Monitoring Agents A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis

Avrahami, Judith; Güth, Werner; Kareev, Yakoov; Uske, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

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Tournament fever and the perception of strategic uncertainty in performance contests

Uske, Tobias - 2008

As firms implement tournament bonus reward schemes, mainly the idea is to introduce competition amongst their agents in …

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On the Incentive Effects of Uncertainty in Monitoring Agents - A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis

Avrahami, Judith; Güth, Werner; Kareev, Yaakov; Uske, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

When two or more agents compete for a bonus and the agents' productivity in each of several possible occurrences depends stochastically on (constant) effort, the number of times that are checked to assign the bonus affects the level of uncertainty in the selection process. Uncertainty, in turn,...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10005090471

Tournament Fever and the Perception of Strategic Uncertainty in Performance Contests

Uske, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

As firms implement tournament bonus reward schemes, mainly the idea is to introduce competition amongst their agents in …

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10005031998