Sabotage in tournaments: Evidence from a laboratory experiment

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 611-627

  Harbring, Christine ^a   Irlenbusch, Bernd ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applications; Decision analysis; Decision making; Incentives; Motivation; Organizational studies

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DECISION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL DATA; INCENTIVES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE;

DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTS; MOTIVATION; WAGES;

CRIME;

EID: 79954460459     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1296     Document Type: Article

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