The Dark Side of Competition for Status

By Gary Charness, David Masclet, Marie-Claire Villeval. Management Sciences, 2014

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Subfields: Demography, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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Awards: A strategic management perspective (2016, background): “These studies suggest that social status as such is a valuable good; individuals are even willing to incur costs to attain it (e.g., Eckel and Ball, 1996; Huberman et al., 2004; for the current state of research, see Charness, Masclet, and Villeval, 2014).”
Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment (2016, unknown): “…al., 2009; Azmat and Iriberri, 2010; Tran and Zeckhauser, 2012), contributions to an online community (Chen et al., 2010), real-effort in the lab (Charness et al., 2012; Freeman and Gelber, 2010; Kuhnen and Tymula, 2012), to workers’ performance in a real working environment (Falk and Ichino,…”
Disentangling Risk and Change (2015, background): “More generally, research suggests that knowledge of relative performance within an organization increases the likelihood of social comparison between workers, as well as the incidence of disreputable behavior (Blanes i Vidal and Nossol, 2011; Charness, Masclet, and Villeval, 2014).”
Sabotage in contests: a survey (2015, unknown): “As explained before, however, experimental results by Charness et al. (2014) suggest that sabotage may occur as long as information regarding the players’ performance ranking is available, even if the monetary rewards do not depend on this ranking. The predictions concerning the effects of prize spr”
Intelligence, Personality, and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions (2019, methodology): “The decoding task is similar to the one used by Charness et al. (2013). Participants were asked to decode sets of letters into numbers from a code key that is displayed on their screen.”
Rankings and Risk-Taking in the Finance Industry (2018, unknown): “, 2013), but have the downside of unethical behavior (Charness et al., 2014).”