Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014
in sabotage and cheating activities aiming at improving one’s performance ranking in a flat-wage environment. We find … others’ work or by increasing artificially their own performance. Introducing sabotage opportunities has a strong detrimental … effect on performance. Therefore, ranking incentives should be used with care. Inducing group identity discourages sabotage …