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

or executive managers, have to be assigned to temporary projects. In firms with many employees and various different …

workers to invest in their own skills, and it imposes innovation pressure that raises the value of training for firms. Using … complements these findings by showing that both workers and managers expect greater returns to learning and human capital …

more actively in the team-building task. …