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

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each … the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is even less evidence on the impact of sabotage because real world acts … experiment in which effort, quality adjusted output and office politics are compared under piece rates and tournaments. Our …

contractual incompleteness. In our experiment, one principal is matched with two agents. The principal pays equal wages in one …

contractual incompleteness. In our experiment, one principal is matched with two agents. The principal pays equal wages in one …

and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production … ; externalities ; laboratory experiments ; personnel economics …

and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence …

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 …-world organizations we employ a controlled experiment. Our data provide clear evidence that agents? behavior is not only guided by …

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

function ; social preferences ; laboratory experiment ; discriminating mechanism ; mechanism design …

In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on … efficiency but might lead to inequitable outcomes. We present findings from laboratory experiments that show under which … economics ; laboratory experiments …