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Risk taking behavior in tournaments: evidence from the NBA
Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010
We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season …
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Emotions and the optimality of unfair tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias - 2005
-order tournaments which are frequently used in practice. Tournaments seem to be an appropriate starting point for this concept because … from emotional workers. In this case, he clearly prefers unfair to fair tournaments. Furthermore, the concept of emotions … is used to explain the puzzling findings on the oversupply of effort in experimental tournaments. …
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Performance responses to competition across skill-levels in rank order tournaments : field evidence and implications for tournament design
Boudreau, Kevin J.; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R. - 2013
Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2 …
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Girls' and boys' performance in competitions : what we can learn from a Korean quiz show
Booth, Alison L.; Lee, Jungmin - 2019
We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance - in favour of boys - across episodes of the quiz show. To investigate underlying mechanisms that might explain...
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
work periods as tournaments that are linked through fatigue spillovers, inducing a non-time-separable decision problem. We …
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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017
If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results...
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Commitment in R&D Tournaments via Strategic Delegation to Overoptimistic Managers
Englmaier, Florian - 2010
race nature of R&D tournaments. …
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Incentive Effects in Asymmetric Tournaments Empirical Evidence from the German Hockey League
Nieken, Petra; Stegh, Michael - 2010
Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We empirically test this prediction using a large dataset from the German Hockey League. Our results show that indeed the intensity of a game is lower if the teams are more...
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Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - 2008
recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments …
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Productivity in contests: Organizational culture and personality effects
Andersson, Ola; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Miettinen, Topi; … - 2010
We study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal group design, we prime subjects to two alternative organizational cultures emphasizing either self-enhancement...
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