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Business strategies and tournament incentives: Evidence from China
Business Research QuarterlyWe investigate the association between business strategy and firm-level tournament incentives in China and find that business strategy is associated with tournament incentives positively.
Li Sun, Ahsan Habib, Hedy Jiaying Huang
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SportsThe present study aimed to examine the influence of different competition models on the physical performance of under-14 female volleyball players, attending to biological maturity development.
Ricardo André Birrento-Aguiar +4 more
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Activity profiles and demands of seasonal and tournament basketball competition
, 2013 Competition-specific conditioning for tournament basketball games is challenging, as the demands of tournament formats are not well characterized. PURPOSE: To compare the physical, physiological, and tactical demands of seasonal and tournament ...
Hopkins, Will G. +3 more
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Exploring the leaky pipeline: Tokenism, status group effects, or self‐selection?
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract In most European universities today, more than 50% of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women, but the corresponding share of full professorships is only about 25%. This phenomenon is called the leaky pipeline. Most explanations refer to gender biases and stereotypes, motherhood, discrimination, and tokenism.
Margit Osterloh, Katja Rost
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An Empirical Study on Risk Taking in Tournaments [PDF]
Individuals faced by a tournament can oftentimes not only choose their effort level, but also the risk level of their strategy. There are some theoretical contributions on risk taking in tournaments, which mainly point out disadvantages with respect to ...
Christian Grund, Oliver Gürtler
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Goodness‐of‐Fit Tests for Positive Quadrant Dependence
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary When two random variables are positive quadrant dependent (PQD), they are more likely to assume small (or large) values simultaneously compared with when the random variables are independent. This dependence structure is of interest in many areas, including finance, actuarial science and engineering.
Chuan‐Fa Tang, Joshua M. Tebbs
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Partitioning a tournament into sub-tournaments of high connectivity
CombinatoricaAbstract We prove that there exists a constant $$c > 0$$ c > 0 such that the vertices of every strongly $$c \cdot ...
Girão, A, Letzter, S
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Neglected Conflicts Induce Negative Consequences on Displaced Persons and Host Families
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conflict studies disproportionately focus on internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, largely side‐lining host community and family dynamics in neglected conflict contexts. We use the sustainable livelihoods capital portfolios to compare changes among IDPs and host families (HFs) of the neglected Anglophone conflict in Cameroon ...
Roland Azibo Balgah (He/him) +2 more
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Risk Taking in Asymmetric Tournaments [PDF]
In an asymmetric tournament model with endogenous risk choice by the agents it is shown that equilibrium efforts decrease (increase) with risk if abilities are sufficiently similar (different). Risk also affects winning probabilities.
Matthias Kräkel, Dirk Sliwka
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Tournament outcomes and prosocial behaviour
, 2013 Does participation in a tournament influence prosocial behaviour in subsequent interactions? We designed an experiment to collect data on charitable donations made by participants out of their earnings from a real-effort tournament.
Rai, Birendra +2 more
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