Positive and Negative Sorting in Team Contests*

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-01-02 DOI:10.1111/joie.12381

Qiang Fu, Zenan Wu, Hanyao Zhang, Yangfan Zhou

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Abstract

This paper investigates the formation of teams in a contest. A manager sorts four workers—who differ in their productivity—into two teams. Workers on each team join forces to produce team output, and one team wins a prize; for example, a bonus package. Two sorting patterns are possible: Positive sorting requires that each team consist of players of same caliber and negative sorting the opposite. We characterize the optimum. We further extend the model to allow the manager to set a prize schedule for the workers on each team upon a win, allocate productive resources between teams, and pick the level of competition of the contest.

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团队竞赛中的正排序和负排序 *

本文研究在竞赛中组建团队的问题。一位经理将四名生产率不同的工人分成两个团队。每个团队中的工人联合起来生产团队产出，其中一个团队赢得奖品，例如红包。有两种排序模式：正向排序要求每个团队都由相同水平的球员组成，反之亦然。我们描述了最优模式的特征。我们进一步扩展了模型，允许管理者为每队获胜的工人设定奖金计划，在各队之间分配生产资源，并选择比赛的竞争程度。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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