Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … monetary incentives improve all teams’ outcomes without crowding out teams’ willingness to explore or perform similar tasks …

We study how incentives to boost short-term performance affect longer-term innovation output. Share repurchases that …

This paper examines the effects of promotion-based tournament incentives for non-CEO executives on corporate innovation …. We find that firms with greater tournament incentives, which are measured as the pay gap between the CEO and other … tournament incentives. The attraction of talent and the reduction in excessive board interventions appear two plausible …

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … also when individuals work together to solve such problems. We do not find a negative impact of incentives on group … performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …