and values as central in how media prizes and awards are created and operated by discussing these questions. Design …Purpose This paper circulates around two major questions: what is the character of prizes as a media product? And how … do the specifics of media prizes relate to the understanding of organizations with respect to a given aspect of their …

, awards. The paper seeks to explore, first, whether awards can be used to motivate higher performance in academia and … volunteering, and second, how often and in what forms awards are in actual fact being used in the voluntary sector. Design …, randomization in the field, and the survey approach. Findings – Awards have the potential to substantially increase performance, yet …

Purpose Aims to shed light on non-monetary awards as incentives. Explores whether they can be used to motivate higher …. Findings Awards might substantially increase performance, yet they are less frequently used in the Swiss voluntary sector than … theory suggests. Practitioners should perhaps give more consideration to awards as an important motivational instrument to be …