When sabotage fails

Doron Klunover

doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2021.07.002

When sabotage fails

Doron Klunover

Ariel University

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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
Externally published	Yes

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I wish to thank Artyom Jelnov and Yizhaq Minchuk for useful discussions of the paper. In addition, I wish to thank three anonymous referees and an associate editor for valuable comments and suggestions that substantially improved the paper. All remaining errors are my own.

Keywords

Contests
Ethical behavior
Hierarchical organizations
Sabotage
Tournaments

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