There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … related to incentives. We can show that the sex di fference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by …

As is well-known from the literature on oligopolistic competition with incomplete information, firms have an incentive …

We study strategic interfirm competition allowing for internal conflicts in each seller firm. Intrafirm conflicts are …, interfirm competition leads to a higher revenue share for the agents, higher equilibrium effort levels and higher agent utility … employed by the competing firms. -- agency theory ; strategic interfirm competition ; revenue sharing …