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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"tournament theory"”.
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CEO pay ratios and company performance : a study of JSE-listed consumer goods and services companies
… are two explanations for this pay disparity - tournament theory and behavioural theory. Tournament theory says that employees are more motivated to compete with a larger pay gap, while the behavioural theories say that employees feel inadequate and thus demotivated in the presence of a larger …
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Tournaments in the public sector
Tournament theory shows that a firm may motivate employees by running competitors for rewards either for a group or individualistic schemes. The empirical literature on Tournaments has been grown. However, many studies use no appropriate data. This paper provides the first empirical evidence on …
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Investigating Player Salaries and Performance in the National Hockey League
This thesis examines salary structure types (hierarchical or compressed) as predictors of team performance in the National Hockey League (NHL). Additionally, an analysis of goalie statistics is completed in order to determine what, if any, performance measures relate to salary. Data in this …
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Corporate Actions and Outcomes Under Multifaceted Market Landscape
… strategic orientation is shaped by CEO Industry Tournament Incentives. The final study shifts the lens to the broader Top Management Teams (TMT), examining the implications of psychological diversity, specifically confidence diversity, on a firm's innovation efficacy. Together, these studies …
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Investigating the relationship between pay disparity and organisational performance
… performance. Some authors, most often using tournament theory, argue there is a positive relationship between pay disparity and organisational performance. In support of this notion, several studies have found a significant positive relationship between pay disparity and organisational …