The phrase "competitive motives" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe the motivations of someone or a group of people that causes them to engage in competitive behaviour. For example, "The team was driven by competitive motives to win the championship."
The three rivals of MCI have competitive motives to try to derail its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, which is heading into its final stage next month.
The three other telephone companies have long been bitter rivals of MCI (formerly WorldCom) and have competitive motives to try to derail the company's plan to reorganize and emerge from the bankruptcy proceedings it entered last year after the admission that it had committed the largest accounting fraud in history.
In contrast to Hoddinott (1992, 1994), who reports inheritable assets to have a positive effect on the amount of remittances sent for the case of Kenya, our results appear to be inconsistent with self-interested competitive motives as drivers of the remittance behaviour of Kenyan sibling migrants.
Well, throw some Sufjan Stevens on the turntable and roll over to Slate's Convictions blog, where a star team of legal eagles are revisiting that old debate, wrangling over whether public spiritedness or an "unseemly competitive motive" lay behind the revelation.
"The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China," by Shang-Jin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang.
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Instead, says Dr. Derek Stimel, government's future ventures into green energy should be guided by the competitive profit motive.
"As TV becomes more competitive and the profit motive gets stronger and stronger, we see an inevitable race to the bottom," Mr. Ruskin said.
The predisposing factors for IRS are not only sedentary life and rich diet but also local population density, competitive social environment, strong economic motives, social divide, social manipulation skills and the tendency to avoid physical aggression.
The company's motive was less philanthropic than competitive.
