remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by … resources or more attractive working conditions. These benefits can partially compensate for the negative effect of reduced team …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team …

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation … transformation than non-HCs firms. To test this hypothesis, I use data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. This allows me to identify …