Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequential. We show that … agents’ strategic behavior in sequential-move tournaments significantly differ from the one in simultaneous-move tournaments …

-pay auctions and rankorder tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests … contests and multi-battle contests. Then we review research on sabotage, feedback, bias, collusion, alliances, and contests … research. -- Contests ; all-pay auctions ; tournaments ; experiments …

-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests … contests and multi-battle contests. Then we review research on sabotage, feedback, bias, collusion, alliances, and contests …

-order tournaments which are frequently used in practice. Tournaments seem to be an appropriate starting point for this concept because … from emotional workers. In this case, he clearly prefers unfair to fair tournaments. Furthermore, the concept of emotions … is used to explain the puzzling findings on the oversupply of effort in experimental tournaments. …

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an …

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an …

promotion, the members in organizations can work not only to enhance their own performances, but also to "sabotage" their … opponents' performances. They find it worthwhile to engage in negative activities because promotion is based on relative, rather … chance of promotion. Finally, we discuss several institutional designs that might help to reduce the influence of negative …

This paper studies the "negative" activities of members in organizations. In competing for promotion, the members not … performances. They find it worthwhile to engage in negative activities because promotion is based on relative performance, and that …