Pluchino, Alessandro; Rapisarda, Andrea; Garofalo, Cesare - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 3, pp. 467-472
In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced an apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: ‘Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her level of maximum...