relative performance contracts, such as rank-order tournaments, can be optimal even though the extant explanations for the …

Tournaments represent an increasingly important component of organizational compensation systems. While prior research … focused on fixed-prize tournaments, i.e., on tournaments where the prize or prize sum to be awarded is set in advance, we …-prize tournaments, are based on relative performance, the prize to be awarded is not set in advance but is a function of the firm …

A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from … tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies, whereas short task duration or lack of distracters may limit the external … where students selected themselves into tournaments with different prizes. Within each tournament the best performing …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non …

of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any …