alike have emphasized the potential of leadership to foster performance in these settings. However, the causal impact of … performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements … can serve as a cost-effective tool to foster team performance. …

influence performance in these tasks. In a field experiment with more than 3000 participants, we document a positive effect of … bonus incentives on the probability of completion of such a task. Bonus incentives increase performance due to the reward … rather than the reference point (performance threshold) they provide. The framing of bonuses (as gains or losses) plays a …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a … salience of team identity does not improve performance. Social-image motivates mainly the top-performing teams. Additional …