productive effort in order to increase his team's performance or sabotage the members of the opponent team. It is shown that … members does. As a consequence, sabotage activities are only directed at a team's weaker members. This finding is quite …

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage … behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm … one of the key insights from theory: effort and sabotage increase with the wage spread. Additionally, we find that even in …

competition between agents but also by the possibility to punish the principal via sabotage. … competitors in order to improve the own relative position. In the present study we investigate whether this sabotage problem is … mitigated in a repeated interaction between the agents and the principal. As sabotage can hardly be observed in real …

contests with heterogeneous agents who may individually sabotage each other. Our results suggest that sabotaging behavior … revealed sabotage decreases while retaliation motives prevail. …

We study interaction effects between intra-firm conflicts and interfirm competition on a duopolistic market with seller … firms employing one or more agents and implementing tournament incentives. We show that inter-firm competition leads to …