Incentives, learning, task difficulty, and the Peter Principle: Interpreting individual output changes in an Organisational Hierarchy

Labour Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-81

  Barmby, Tim ^a   Eberth, Barbara ^a   Ma, Ada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Peter Principle; Tournaments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455161025     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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