Performance, Promotion and Information

If a firm provides incentives by promoting those who have performed well in a job, it may transfer them to a job to which they are not well suited and agents are promoted to their levels of incompetence. Tournaments are an alternative to reputation as a means of ensuring that firms reward good perfo...

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Main Author: Jaroslav, Zajac (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2004
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 187-198
Further subjects:B Matching
B Risk
B limited-liability
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Summary:If a firm provides incentives by promoting those who have performed well in a job, it may transfer them to a job to which they are not well suited and agents are promoted to their levels of incompetence. Tournaments are an alternative to reputation as a means of ensuring that firms reward good performance when performance is unverifiable.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/B:BUSI.0000022124.95071.0c