TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Harbring, Christine
AU  - Irlenbusch, Bernd
        TI  - How Many Winners Are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage
        PY  - 2005/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1777
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1777
        AB  - From an employer's perspective a tournament should induce agents to exert productive activities but refrain from destructive ones. We experimentally test the predictive power of a tournament model which suggests that – within a reasonable framework – productive and destructive activities are not influenced neither by the number of agents taking part in the tournament nor by the fraction of the winner prizes. Our results clearly confirm that sabotage in tournaments indeed occurs. While tournament size has virtually no effect on behavior, a balanced fraction of winner and loser prizes seems to particularly enhance productive activities.
        KW  - experiments
KW  - personnel economics
KW  - relative performance evaluation
KW  - sabotage
        ER  -