Outshining Your Rival: Interpersonal Rivalry and Its Effects on Organizational Contributions

The authors thank senior editor JP Ferguson and three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and thoughtful suggestions, which substantially improved this paper. The authors are grateful for comments on earlier versions of this manuscript from Gianluca Carnabuci, Friederike Lenel, Xu Li, Hannah Liepmann, Martin Schweinsberg, Niko de Silva, and Axel Werwatz. The authors also thank seminar and conference participants at the Amsterdam Business School, ESCP Berlin, Kühne Logistics University Hamburg, the SEI Doctoral Consortium, and the Sports Data Workshop at the Stockholm School of Economics for their valuable feedback. Arne Thomas gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship (State of Berlin) during his doctoral studies. All errors are those of the authors alone.