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Our unique setting, characterized by expectations of widespread doping despite a rigorous antidoping regulatory regime and close media scrutiny, provides a new perspective on the multilayered ways that actors in competitive industries assess the competing demands of extreme performance pressures versus playing by the rules. We find that only the most severe rules violations are associated with career interruptions for riders, whereas lesser offenses are not. More ambiguous cases of doping, those based on informal suspicion or moderately punished formal convictions, are associated with career interruptions primarily for the sport\u2019s high-performing stars. In contrast to most prior work on spillover effects from peer misconduct, we find that most riders are at a lower risk of career interruptions following teammates\u2019 doping convictions\u2014an effect we attribute to a vetting process in which regulators proactively target peers for increased monitoring, which resolves uncertainties about peers\u2019 doping. Regarding spillover effects on managers\u2019 careers, we find that only extreme levels of formal convictions that signal major team scandals are associated with increased risk of managerial career interruptions. Together, our results suggest an industry-level incentive structure that supports widespread misconduct in a competitive industry despite rigorous monitoring and enforcement.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>This paper was accepted by Lamar Pierce, organizations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/mnsc.2021.03681 .<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.2021.03681","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,19]],"date-time":"2025-03-19T10:15:14Z","timestamp":1742379314000},"page":"9462-9484","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Consequences of Performance-Enhancing Misconduct: Insights from Professional Road Cycling, 2000\u20132010"],"prefix":"10.1287","volume":"71","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4757-1017","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chris","family":"Yenkey","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Sonoco International Business Department, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29201"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8109-2231","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Donald","family":"Palmer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Management and Organizations, Graduate School of Management, University of California-Davis, Davis, California 95616"}]}],"member":"109","reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5465\/AMJ.2006.23478165"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.blre.2019.100632"},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1162\/003355304772839588"},{"key":"B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jaccpubpol.2010.03.002"},{"key":"B5","volume-title":"Descent: My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End","author":"Dekker T","year":"2017"},{"key":"B8","author":"Desbordes M","year":"2007","journal-title":"Internat. 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