Tournament Incentives is a compensation mechanism in which individuals compete for performance-based rewards determined by relative ranking rather than absolute output, thereby motivating effort through hierarchical pay disparities.
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Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts
Edward P. Lazear, Sherwin Rosen · Journal of Political Economy · 1981 · 4.6K citations · Full text
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