Intercollegiate Poultry Judging Contests

Managing Organizational Culture in Intercollegiate Athletic Organizations

The purpose of this paper is to link concepts of organizational culture, traditionally viewed from a corporate perspective, to management of intercollegiate athletic organizations. Relevant literature is reviewed to identify definitions and components of organizational culture, as well as elements of cultural strength. The relationship of culture to transformational leadership is recognized and...

Intercollegiate board for sport and exercise medicine.

Dynamic Contests

Considering several main types of dynamic contests (the race, the tugof-war, elimination contests and iterated incumbency …ghts) we identify a common pattern: the discouragement e¤ect. This e¤ect explains why the sum of rent-seeking e¤orts often falls considerably short of the prize that is at stake. It may cause violent con‡ict in early rounds, but may also lead to long periods of peaceful int...

Asymmetric Contests

We investigate the Nash equilibria of asymmetric, winner-take-all, imperfectly discriminating contests, focusing on existence, uniqueness and rent dissipation. When the contest success function is determined by a production function with decreasing returns for each contestant, equilibria are unique. If marginal product is also bounded, limiting total expenditure is equal to the value of the pri...

Large Contests

We consider contests with many, possibly heterogeneous, players and prizes that include many existing contest models as special cases. We show that the equilibria of such contests are approximated by an appropriately defined set of incentive-compatible individually-rational single-agent mechanisms. This approach makes it possible to approximate the equilibria of contests whose exact equilibrium...