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The Predictive Power of Three Prominent Tournament Formats

Ryvkin, Dmitry; Ortmann, Andreas - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 3, pp. 492-504

power." We study three widely used tournament formats: contests, binary elimination tournaments, and round-robin tournaments …

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Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: New Evidence from Randomized Natural Experiments

Kocher, Martin G.; Lenz, Marc V.; Sutter, Matthias - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 8, pp. 1585-1591

Dynamic competitive settings may create psychological pressure when feedback about the performance of competitors is provided before the end of the competition. Such psychological pressure could produce a first-mover advantage, despite a priori equal winning probabilities. Using data from a...

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Men Too Sometimes Shy Away from Competition: The Case of Team Competition

Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 11, pp. 1982-2000

as men. This paper presents an experimental design that gives participants the opportunity to enter a tournament as part … of a team rather than alone. Although a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found …, in line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. Women do not enter the tournament …

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Quality and Competition

Banker, Rajiv D.; Khosla, Inder; Sinha, Kingshuk K. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 9, pp. 1179-1192

In recent years, the practitioner literature in operations management has seen a dramatic surge in articles on quality management. It reflects the increased emphasis on quality by U.S. firms, which has been attributed largely to increased competition faced by them. The question of how quality is...

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Capacity Investment Timing by Start-ups and Established Firms in New Markets

Swinney, Robert; Cachon, Gérard P.; Netessine, Serguei - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 4, pp. 763-777

We analyze the competitive capacity investment timing decisions of both established firms and start-ups entering new markets, which have a high degree of demand uncertainty. Firms may invest in capacity early (when uncertainty is high) or late (when uncertainty has been resolved), possibly at...

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Uncertainty, Competition, and the Adoption of New Technology

Mamer, John W.; McCardle, Kevin F. - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 2, pp. 161-177

Faced with the decision of whether or not to adopt a new technology whose economic value cannot be gauged with certainty, the manager of the firm may elect to decrease the uncertainty by sequentially gathering information (at a unit cost of c 0), updating his prior beliefs in a Bayesian manner....

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Research Note--Competitive Bundling and Counterbundling with Generalist and Specialist Firms

Ghosh, Bikram; Balachander, Subramanian - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 1, pp. 159-168

Bundling, which is the practice of selling two or more products or services in a package, is a pervasive marketing practice and is often used as a strategic competitive tool. However, there has not been enough consideration of competitive bundling situations in which exit of a competitor is not...

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Market Information and Firm Performance

Raju, Jagmohan S.; Roy, Abhik - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 8, pp. 1075-1084

The value of new information depends on how accurate the information is, but it may also depend on the characteristics of the firm and the nature of the industry it operates in. We develop a game-theoretic model to understand how firm and industry characteristics moderate the effect of market...

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EFFICIENCY IN EVOLUTIONARY GAMES: DARWIN, NASH AND SECRET HANDSHAKE.

ROBSON, A.J. - Michigan - Center for Research on Economic & Social Theory - 1989

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