Prior research demonstrates that relative performance information affects effort and performance. However, little is known about the qualitative design parameters of these information systems. This study examines, via an experiment, how adding performance category labels to ranks (e.g.,...

This study investigates the effects of the psychological mechanisms activated by different proportions of tournament winners on effort. Using a real-effort experiment that allows the evolution of social comparison, which is central to our theory, we show that firms can increase employee effort...

Comparable valuation is one of the most widespread valuation techniques in practice. In order to compute a representative comparable for a peer group, three decisions need to be made. A value indicator, a time horizon for the value, and a compression method to aggregate all comparables of a peer...