I examine the effect of relative performance evaluation (RPE) on firm performance and risk-taking behavior. Agency theory suggests that, for firms that experience common shocks, RPE in executive compensation plans improves risk sharing and strengthens ...

Leaderboards are a workhorse of the gamification literature. While the effect of a leaderboard has been well studied, there is much less evidence how one's peer group affects the treatment effect of a leaderboard. Through a pre-registered field ...

A new approach to the multidimensional assessment of research organizations is introduced. Based on the use of quantitative data, various types of research and development results are considered in the approach.

Purpose. The purpose of this article is to propose a solution for conflict resolution in a bioecological system.

Background. In 1979, Bronfenbrenner introduced his bioecological theory of human development which suggested that children are immersed in ...

There is growing interest in the design of interactive technologies in sensitive settings. In designing for people in these settings it is likely researchers and designers will hear people discuss deeply personal and potentially emotional topics. We ...

This paper describes the successful development and implementation of an approach to peer feedback and collaborative writing within extensively interdisciplinary research groups likely to be formed in research projects concerning computer science ...

Trust Management is increasingly playing a major role especially with the growing need for security in decentralized, unsecured networks like peer-to-peer networks. Effective trust management solutions especially one geared towards handling trust in ...

Games are seldom played in isolation and there is invariably a social context. This does not just apply to multiplayer or online games, but also to games played in private where they form part of the shared experience of many peer groups. What is clear ...

Group communication systems are high-availability distributed systems providing reliable and ordered message delivery, as well as a membership service, to group-oriented applications. Many such systems are built using a distributed client-server ...

Caching is a key technique for improving data retrieval performance of mobile clients. The emergence of state-of-the-art peer-to-peer communication technologies now brings to reality what we call "cooperative caching" in which mobile clients not only ...