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Person-Organization Fit and Incentives: A Causal Test

Andersson, Ola; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Miettinen, Topi; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

We investigate the effects of organizational culture and personal value orientations on performance under individual and team contest incentives. We develop a model of regard for others and in-group favoritism predicting interaction effects between organizational culture and personal values in...

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Commitment in R&D Tournaments via Strategic Delegation to Overoptimistic Managers

Englmaier, Florian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

race nature of R&D tournaments. …

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When higher prizes lead to lower efforts—The impact of favoritism in tournaments

Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 188-191

We investigate the relationship between tournament prices and effort choices in the presence of favoritism. High tournament prizes can decrease agents’ effort supply when the choice of the winner is not perfectly objective but affected to some extent by personal preferences of an evaluator.

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The problem of the principal-agent and promotion tournaments in religious organizations: choosing the next pope

Oliveira, Livio Luiz Soares de; Neto, Giácomo Balbinotto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper shows an application of Promotion Tournaments to religious organizations, which is appropriate, especially … suitability of the use Tournaments in religious organizations, regarding the optimal structure of contracts in order to select, as …, both with two clerics with homogeneous skills. Finally, we discuss the advantages and limitations of the Tournaments …

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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data

Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players’ abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further...

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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …

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Pay inequalities and managerial turnover

Kale, Jayant R.; Reis, Ebru; Venkateswaran, Anand - In: Journal of Empirical Finance 27 (2014) C, pp. 21-39

We study how pay inequalities affect (i) a firm's rate of voluntary non-CEO manager (VP) VP resignations, and (ii) the likelihood that an individual VP will voluntarily resign. We consider pay inequalities that a VP faces relative to (i) the CEO in her own firm, (ii) other VPs in the firm, and...

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Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments

Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments …

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Efficient Contests

Riis, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In their seminal contribution Lazear and Rosen (1981) show that wages based upon rank induce the same e¢ cient e¤ort as incentive-based reward schemes. They also show that this equivalence result is not robust towards heterogeneity in worker ability, as long as ability is private information,...

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Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal?

Clark, Andrew; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...

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