,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …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 …

performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …. Incentives did not reduce performance there either. Comparing individuals with groups we find that team-work facilitates creative …It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …

attaining the lower winning probability is the one choosing the rule giving higher incentives to the members. -- collective …

-sharing selective incentives. …

an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort … provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is known about how incentives … 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 …

prosocial behavior. We conduct a large-scale online experiment where we add the possibility of purchasing insurance to safeguard …