Bothner, Matthew S.; Podolny, Joel M.; Smith, Edward Bishop - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 3, pp. 439-457
What is the best way to design tournaments for status, in which individuals labor primarily for the esteem of their peers? What process, in other words, should organizers of status-based contests impose upon those who covet peer recognition? We propose a formal model of status-based competition...
