 "Departments value their turf and strive to protect it.This problem may be compounded by interdepartmental rivalries that arise from win/lose the competition for rewards and resources"

Rivalry within organizations occurs for example when different groups at a given organization level fail to cooperate.For example, Papa gives an example of "corporate executives in a national department store chain" who "encountered territorial rivalry when they discovered that local stores within each of the company's major sales districts refused to cooperate with one another on sales promotions".