Can losing lead to winning?

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 817-827

  Berger, Jonah ^a   Pope, Devin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Motivation; Performance; Prospect theory

Indexed keywords

FIELD DATA; PERCENTAGE POINTS; PERFORMANCE; PROSPECT THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS;

MOTIVATION;

COMPETITION;

EID: 79956065678     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1328     Document Type: Article

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