, it is not surprising that one commonly used motivator is the promotion tournament. In such tournaments, agents compete to … advance to positions at higher organizational levels. Though these tournaments are common, little research has empirically …

Contests (or tournaments) are pervasive in organizations. They help performance evaluation by eliminating common shocks … affecting agents' performance. However, tournaments are less effective when participants have heterogeneous ability because … similar loss of motivation arises when tournaments take place over multiple periods because interim performance acts in a way …

reduces the incentives of all competitors in a contest to exert effort and make investments. At the same time, adding …. We also find that higher uncertainty reduces the negative effect of added competitors on incentives. Thus, uncertainty … and the nature of the problem should be explicitly considered in the design of innovation tournaments. We explore the …

Is the right amount of effort exerted in multiperson tournaments where contestants have two different levels of initial … varying the prize structure. We test these predictions for three-person tournaments using an economic experiment in a social …

This paper investigates the impact of royalty revision on incentives and profits in a two-stage (research and … to dynamically adjust royalty rates across the two stages of the alliance to better align the innovator's incentives …

different; one firm is decentralized and uses incentives that commit it to being aggressive, while the other is centralized and … uses incentives that commit it to being soft. Hence, endogenous firm heterogeneity in the form of organizational …