When sabotage fails

Doron Klunover

doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2021.07.002

When sabotage fails

Doron Klunover

Department of Economics and Business Administration

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Abstract

What are the chances of an ethical individual rising through the ranks of a political party or a corporation in the presence of unethical peers? To answer this question, I consider a four-player two-stage elimination tournament, in which players are partitioned into those who are willing to sabotage other players’ efforts and those who are not. I show that, under certain conditions, the latter are more likely to win the tournament.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	164-168
Number of pages	5
Journal	Mathematical Social Sciences
Volume	113
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2021.07.002
State	Published - Sep 2021

Keywords

Contests
Ethical behavior
Hierarchical organizations
Sabotage
Tournaments

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