Getting along to get ahead: The role of social context in tournament promotion and reward systems.

Tournament theory posits that some organizations are modeled after sports tournaments whereby individuals are incentivized to compete and win against other members of the organization. A persistent criticism of tournament theory is that rank-order success of employees is entirely dependent on non-in...

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Main Authors: George C Banks, Christopher E Whelpley, Eean R Crawford, Ernest H O'Boyle, Sven Kepes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257389