This paper reviews the relatively small literature on sabotage in contests. It looks at both the formal game …

We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … females do not differ in their achievements in the real effort task but in their choice of sabotage. Males select … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the …

This paper studies sabotage in tournaments with at least three contestants, where the contestants know each other well …. Every contestant has an incentive to direct sabotage specifically against his most dangerous rival. In equilibrium … victims of mobbing are sometimes found to be overachieving. Further, sabotage equalizes promotion chances. The effect is most …

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 …

sabotage problem which is otherwise inherent in tournament struc- tures. In a game-theoretical model with three contestants, we … the incen- tives to sabotage in a fixed-prize tournament may be counteracted in a variable-prize tournament such that … contestants no longer sabotage, but help one another. We empirically test the implications of our model with the help of a …