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The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline

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  1. George J. Borjas & Kirk B. Doran, 2015. "Prizes and Productivity: How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 50(3), pages 728-758.
  2. Jean-Yves Lesueur, 2010. "La production scientifique des enseignants-chercheurs en économie : Quelques résultats économétriques issus du dispositif PES," Working Papers 1030, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Etienne (GATE Lyon St-Etienne), Université de Lyon.
  3. Anja Schöttner & Veikko Thiele, 2010. "Promotion Tournaments and Individual Performance Pay," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 19(3), pages 699-731, September.
  4. Christian Grund & Niels Westergaard-Nielsen, 2008. "The Dispersion of Employees' Wage Increases and Firm Performance," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 61(4), pages 485-501, July.
  5. Tom Coupé & Valérie Smeets & Frédéric Warzynski, 2006. "Incentives, Sorting and Productivity along the Career: Evidence from a Sample of Top Economists," The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 22(1), pages 137-167, April.
  6. Edward P. Lazear & Kathryn L. Shaw & Christopher T. Stanton, 2015. "The Value of Bosses," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 33(4), pages 823-861.
  7. Araki, Shota & Kawaguchi, Daiji & Onozuka, Yuki, 2016. "University prestige, performance evaluation, and promotion: Estimating the employer learning model using personnel datasets," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 135-148.
  8. Lazear, Edward P., 2016. "Overconfidence and Occupational Choice," Research Papers 3419, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  9. Junichiro Ishida, 2006. "Optimal Promotion Policies with the Looking-Glass Effect," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 24(4), pages 857-878, October.
  10. Ďuriník, Michal & Morita, Hodaka & Servátka, Maroš & Zhang, Le, 2023. "Promotions and Group Identity," MPRA Paper 119389, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  11. Friebel, Guido & Raith, Michael, 2016. "Managers, Training, and Internal Labor Markets," VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145666, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  12. Theofanis Tsoulouhas & Charles Knoeber & Anup Agrawal, 2007. "Contests to become CEO: incentives, selection and handicaps," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 30(2), pages 195-221, February.
  13. Amanda Goodall & Margit Osterloh & Mandy Fong, 2020. "Women Shy Away From Competition – How To Overcome It," CREMA Working Paper Series 2020-21, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).
  14. Muel Kaptein, 2023. "A Paradox of Ethics: Why People in Good Organizations do Bad Things," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 184(1), pages 297-316, April.
  15. Kräkel, Matthias, 2012. "Competitive careers as a way to mediocracy," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 28(1), pages 76-87.
  16. Amegashie, J.A., 2002. "Burning Out in Sequential Elimination Contests," Working Papers 2002-8, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance.
  17. Jean-Yves Lesueur, 2010. "La production scientifique des enseignants-chercheurs en économie : Quelques résultats économétriques issus du dispositif PES," Post-Print halshs-00537859, HAL.
  18. Stefanie Brilon, 2010. "Job Assignment with Multivariate Skills," Discussion Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics 2010_25, Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics.
  19. Jakob Infuehr & Sebastian Kronenberger, 2023. "The Impact of Job Similarity Along the Career Path on the Firm’s Promotion Strategy," Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, Springer, vol. 75(2), pages 149-172, June.
  20. Hayato KANAYAMA & Yuji KAWATA & Ritsu KITAGAWA, 2025. "Supervisor Accuracy in Subjective Evaluations and Employee Careers," Discussion papers 25098, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
  21. Isabella Grabner & Frank Moers, 2013. "Managers' Choices of Performance Measures in Promotion Decisions: An Analysis of Alternative Job Assignments," Journal of Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 51(5), pages 1187-1220, December.
  22. Frederiksen, Anders & Halliday, Timothy J. & Koch, Alexander K., 2010. "What Do We Work For? An Anatomy of Pre- and Post-Tax Earnings Growth," IZA Discussion Papers 5298, IZA Network @ LISER.
  23. João Ricardo Faria & Franklin G. Mixon, 2020. "The Peter and Dilbert Principles applied to academe," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 115-132, June.
  24. Kopányi-Peuker, Anita & Offerman, Theo & Sloof, Randolph, 2018. "Team production benefits from a permanent fear of exclusion," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 125-149.
  25. Sjögren Lindquist, Gabriella, 2010. "Tournaments and unfair treatment," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 39(6), pages 670-682, December.
  26. Anders Frederiksen & Timothy Halliday & Alexander K. Koch, 2016. "Within- and Cross-Firm Mobility and Earnings Growth," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 69(2), pages 320-353, March.
  27. Axelson, Ulf & Bond, Philip, 2011. "Investment banking careers: an equilibrium theory of overpaid jobs," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 119062, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  28. Isabella Grabner & Judith Künneke & Frank Moers, 2025. "Promotion Decisions and the Adoption of Explicit Potential Assessment," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 71(11), pages 9233-9255, November.
  29. Ferreira, Priscila, 2009. "The determinants of promotions and firm separations," ISER Working Paper Series 2009-11, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
  30. Narayanan Jayaraman & Vikram Nanda & Harley E. Ryan, 2022. "The influence of learning and bargaining on CEO–chair duality: Evidence from firms that pass the baton," Financial Management, Financial Management Association International, vol. 51(1), pages 297-350, March.
  31. James Liang & Hui Wang & Edward P. Lazear, 2018. "Demographics and Entrepreneurship," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 126(S1), pages 140-196.
  32. Benjamin Artz & Amanda H. Goodall & Andrew J. Oswald, 2020. "How Common Are Bad Bosses?," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(1), pages 3-39, January.
  33. Henneberger, Fred & Sousa-Poza, Alfonso & Ziegler, Alexandre, 2007. "Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing," IZA Discussion Papers 3019, IZA Network @ LISER.
  34. Michael Mueller, 2016. "Does Sporting Activity Foster Career Advancement?," Eastern European Business and Economics Journal, Eastern European Business and Economics Studies Centre, vol. 2(4), pages 285-298.
  35. David Lagziel & Ehud Lehrer, 2019. "A Bias of Screening," American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association, vol. 1(3), pages 343-356, December.
  36. Yoko ASUYAMA & Hideo OWAN, 2024. "People Management Skills, Senior Leadership Skills and the Peter Principle," Discussion papers 24037, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
  37. Daiji KAWAGUCHI & Hideo OWAN & Kazuteru TAKAHASHI, 2016. "Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluation," Discussion papers 16059, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
  38. Marie C. Thursby & Jerry Thursby & Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee, 2007. "Are There Real Effects of Licensing on Academic Research? A Life Cycle View," NBER Chapters, in: Academic Science and Entrepreneurship: Dual Engines of Growth, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  39. Adam Scharpf & Christian Gläßel, 2020. "Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(4), pages 791-806, October.
  40. Cheng, Yuan & Chang, Meng & Xue, Yanbo, 2020. "A computational study of promotion dynamics and organizational efficiency," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 560(C).
  41. Robert E. Marks, 2013. "The Satisficer’s Curse," Discussion Papers 2013-28, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales.
  42. David L. Dickinson & Marie Claire Villeval, 2012. "Job Allocation Rules and Sorting Efficiency: Experimental Outcomes in a Peter Principle Environment," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 78(3), pages 842-859, January.
  43. Müller, Michael, 2016. "Fördert sportliche Aktivität den beruflichen Aufstieg?," Discussion Papers of the Institute for Organisational Economics 02/2016, University of Münster, Institute for Organisational Economics.
  44. Lazear, Edward P. & Shaw, Kathryn L., 2014. "The value of bosses," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 60611, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  45. Samuel A Swift & Don A Moore & Zachariah S Sharek & Francesca Gino, 2013. "Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(7), pages 1-15, July.
  46. David Dickinson & Marie Claire Villeval, 2007. "The Peter Principle: An Experiment," Post-Print halshs-00175426, HAL.
  47. Awasthy, Prakash & Gouda, Sirish & Ghosh, Debabrata & Swami, Sanjeev, 2022. "Analyzing product greening spillovers in multi-product markets," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
  48. Alan Benson & Danielle Li & Kelly Shue, 2019. "Promotions and the Peter Principle," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 134(4), pages 2085-2134.
  49. Kiyotaki, Fumi, 2010. "Hold-up and the inefficiency of job assignments," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(1), pages 36-44, March.
  50. Li, Teng & Lu, Runjing, 2022. "Social undermining as a dark side of symbolic awards: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
  51. Henrik Egbert & Teodor Sedlarski & Aleksandar B. Todorov, 2022. "Foundations of Contemporary Economics: Edward P. Lazear and Personnel Economics," Economic Thought journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 6, pages 671-691.
  52. Bertrand Belvaux & Rémi Mencarelli, 2021. "Prevision model and empirical test of box office results for sequels," Post-Print hal-03200091, HAL.
  53. Weichao Yang & Xuebo Dun & Xuelian Jiang & Yadong Zhou & Bingtao Hou & Ruiqing Lang & Rong Zhuang & Qingling Meng, 2023. "An integrated risk assessment framework for multiple natural disasters based on multi-dimensional correlation analysis," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 119(3), pages 1531-1550, December.
  54. Weichao Yang & De Hu & Xuelian Jiang & Xuebo Dun & Bingtao Hou & Chuanxing Zheng & Caixia Chen & Rong Zhuang, 2022. "Framework for Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Disasters and Influencing Factors: Exploratory Study of Tianjin, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-23, August.
  55. Frederiksen, Anders & Lange, Fabian & Kriechel, Ben, 2017. "Subjective performance evaluations and employee careers," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 408-429.
  56. Shaw, Kathryn & Sørensen, Anders, 2022. "Coming of age: Watching young entrepreneurs become successful," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
  57. Risa Kumazawa, 2010. "Promotion speed and its effect on attrition of Navy-enlisted personnel: addressing heterogeneity in high school credentials," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(20), pages 2563-2576.
  58. Pawel Sobkowicz, 2010. "Dilbert-Peter Model of Organization Effectiveness: Computer Simulations," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 13(4), pages 1-4.
  59. van Dalen, H.P. & Henkens, K., 2015. "Why Demotion of Older Workers is a No-Go Area for Managers," Discussion Paper 2015-025, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
  60. Grabner, Isabella & Künneke, Judith & Moers, Frank, 2025. "Promotion decisions and the adoption of explicit potential assessment," Other publications TiSEM cd81d3bd-ce65-4a47-b552-6, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
  61. Michael Gibbs & Wallace Hendricks, 2004. "Do Formal Salary Systems Really Matter?," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 58(1), pages 71-93, October.
  62. Fetta, A.G. & Harper, P.R. & Knight, V.A. & Vieira, I.T. & Williams, J.E., 2012. "On the Peter Principle: An agent based investigation into the consequential effects of social networks and behavioural factors," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 391(9), pages 2898-2910.
  63. Barmby, Tim & Eberth, Barbara & Ma, Ada, 2012. "Incentives, learning, task difficulty, and the Peter Principle: Interpreting individual output changes in an Organisational Hierarchy," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(1), pages 76-81.
  64. Pierre Malgrange & Jean-Louis Rullière & Marie Claire Villeval, 2004. "L'économie des ressources humaines : pouvoir et limites des incitations. Aperçu théorique et présentation générale," Economie & Prévision, La Documentation Française, vol. 0(3), pages 1-15.
  65. Brilon, Stefanie, 2015. "Job assignment with multivariate skills and the Peter Principle," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 112-121.
  66. Jost, Peter-J. & Kräkel, Matthias, 2008. "Human capital investments in asymmetric corporate tournaments," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 60(4), pages 312-331.
  67. P. Rajguru & I. R. Churchill & G. Graham, 2025. "The Peter Principle Revisited: An Agent-Based Model of Promotions, Efficiency, and Mitigation Policies," Papers 2512.21467, arXiv.org.
  68. Belvaux, Bertrand & Mencarelli, Rémi, 2021. "Prevision model and empirical test of box office results for sequels," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 38-48.
  69. Florian Englmaier & Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez & Ricard Gil & Michael Kaiser & Helene Strandt, 2025. "Management Practices and Firm Performance During the Great Recession," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 548, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
  70. Kathryn Shaw & Anders Sørensen, 2019. "The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 72(5), pages 1225-1261, October.
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  72. Stefano Dughera & Alain Marciano, 2022. "Supervise me if you can. Relational feelings, incentive pays and supervisory violations," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 136(1), pages 47-72, June.
  73. Vanessa C. Burbano & John Mamer & Jason Snyder, 2018. "Pro bono as a human capital learning and screening mechanism: Evidence from law firms," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(11), pages 2899-2920, November.
  74. Joao Ricardo Faria & Peter McAdam, 2014. "Does Tenure Make Researchers Less Productive? The Case of the “Specialist”," School of Economics Discussion Papers 0514, School of Economics, University of Surrey.
  75. Edward P. Lazear & Paul Oyer, 2012. "Personnel Economics [The Handbook of Organizational Economics]," Introductory Chapters,, Princeton University Press.
  76. Pablo Acosta, 2004. "Promotions, State Dependence and Intrafirm Job Mobility: Evidence From Personnel Records," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 585, Econometric Society.
  77. Alexander K. Koch & Julia Nafziger, 2012. "Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 1029-1059, December.
  78. Basuroy, Suman & Chatterjee, Subimal, 2008. "Fast and frequent: Investigating box office revenues of motion picture sequels," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 61(7), pages 798-803, July.
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  81. Michael Jensen & Heeyon Kim, 2015. "The Real Oscar Curse: The Negative Consequences of Positive Status Shifts," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 26(1), pages 1-21, February.
  82. Farias, B. & Rapôso, O. & Penna, T.J.P. & Girardi, D., 2021. "The Peter Principle and learning: A safer way to promote workers," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 576(C).
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