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Performance Bonuses and Effort : Evidence from Fight Night Awards in Mixed Martial Arts

Gift, Paul - 2021

This paper investigates the role of fight night bonus awards on fighter behavior in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and World Extreme Cage (WEC) fighting mixed martial arts (MMA) promotions. Behavior is analyzed using detailed fighter performance statistics, exploiting variation in...

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Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021

One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little evidence establishing a causal link between leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game...

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The strongest link in a weak team? : performance of players with and without outside options in relegated football clubs

Müller, Michael - 2016

In this study the performance of players in relegated German football clubs is analysed, in particular the change in their contribution to team production. The players in the data sample differ regarding their outside options. Different career opportunities of players may have two effects when...

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Physical constitution matters for athletic performance and salary of NBA players

Bakkenbüll, Linn-Brit - 2017

professional basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA). This study examines whether there is a relationship … between the physical constitution of professional basketball players and their athletic performance in the 2015/16 NBA season … characteristics on salary for NBA players. Taller players have a higher salary in the 2015/16 NBA season. …

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Performance bonuses and effort : evidence from fight night awards in mixed martial arts

Gift, Paul - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 7 (2019) 1/13, pp. 1-11

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Setting Up of Employees Performance Management System at Vogue Commercial Ltd

Bharatiya, Pronod - 2020

Retaining talented employees is a challenging exercise especially when it comes to small and mid-size companies. The present case study is restricted to setting up a performance appraisal system for each and every department of a mid-size broking house of Delhi which has mostly a North India...

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Special ones? : the effect of Head Coaches on football team performance

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021

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No Confidence – No Glory? Coach Behavioral Bias and Team Performance

Naidenova, Iuliia - 2017

Research question: According to behavioral economics, coaches may unconsciously bias from rational behavior, which in turn affects team performance. We analyze the influence of a particular coach behavioral bias, overconfidence, on a soccer team performance.Research methods: We use a sample of...

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Individual performance after success and failure : a natural experiment

Bühren, Christoph; Krabel, Stefan - 2015

performance. Our study is based on evidence from a natural experiment of NBA (National Basketball Association) players: Based on … play-by-play statistics of NBA games in 10 seasons (1818 observations of 345 sportsmen), we identify players who are …

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Human performance after success and failure : evidence from the NBA

Bühren, Christoph; Krabel, Stefan - In: International journal of human resource management 32 (2021) 16, pp. 3402-3427

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