We investigate the effects of team competition on pro-social lending activity on Kiva.org, the first microlending …

. Some platforms introduce team competition to motivate member participation and may thus induce team rivalry. Methods: We … investigate how team rivalry affects lending decisions using data from Kiva.org. We argue that a rivalry relationship may engage … not to cooperate. Result: We find that a team is less likely to lend to a project that has received funding from its rival …