Abstract Existing theory suggests that three “order effects” may emerge in multi-stage tournaments with information … conditions and clear incentives.  …

tournaments literature by examining the performance of three data sets pertaining to the performance and evidence of tournament …

“tournaments” from agency theory and the personal characteristics of perpetrators and victims. Research limitations … perpetrators and their participation in organisational politics and competitive tournaments may well be preventing the recognition … perspective. It also uses the concept of “tournaments” to propose why Australian managers tend to want to “sweep the issue under …

decision making creates problems of aligning incentives of vertically related agents, and coordinating the actions of different …

and experimentation. The results predict the underprovision of optimal incentives and deviation from a standard sufficient … statistics result from the agency literature. It also allows us to address the question of creating the optimal incentives in a …

This paper studies the interactions between health insurance and the incentives for innovation. Although we focus on … inadequate incentives to innovate. Standard results in the health literature suggest that health insurance leads to the … overutilization of health care. Our study of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry emphasizes the interaction of these incentives …

Summary This article compares the innovative activity of managerial and owner-led firms. The incentives to innovate for … growth in case of success is a positive incentive. In light of this conflicting incentives, we investigate empirically …

valid or not. Additionally, further kinds of incentives are taken into account. It is shown that the current structure of … the financial incentives influences the decision of the recipients much less than it is assumed. In contrast to this, the …. Therefore, a reform of the German system of social assistance should not only focus on financial incentives.  …