When Is the Performance-Pay Relationship Stronger? Evidence from the Big-5 Football Leagues

Across organizational and managerial settings, a commonly held belief is that the pay of resource providers and their performance are closely linked. Yet, the boundary conditions of this claim have not been thoroughly explored; that is, scholars do not know much about those factors that might contribute to the decoupling between performance and pay. We explore the above topic by leveraging a dataset of 686 professional soccer players in the...