literature, we find that sabotage against the opponent is used more frequently by players from teams with lower ability. In … find that captains, in contrast to other players, seem to use sabotage less impulsively and more strategically, as they do … increase their sabotage in important matches. …

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 … competition between agents but also by the possibility to punish the principal via sabotage. …

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

without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer … sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …

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 …

This paper studies sabotage in a contest with non-identical players. Unlike previous papers, we consider sabotage in an … elimination contest and allow contestants to sabotage a potential or future rival. It turns out that for a certain partition of … players there is a pure-strategy equilibrium in which only the most able contestant engages in sabotage while less able …

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