Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We … reduction of effort provision from favorite teams. As the number of games per team changes between different seasons, we can … also investigate the effect of a changing spread between winner and loser prize. In line with theory, teams reduce effort …

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 …

We empirically investigate if tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intense. To test our hypotheses we … a highly significant negative impact of the matchup's heterogeneity on joint teame efforts. However, further analysis …

We empirically investigate if tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intense. To test our hypotheses we … a highly significant negative impact of the matchup's heterogeneity on joint teame efforts. However, further analysis …

Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We … reduction of effort provision from favorite teams. As the number of games per team changes between different seasons, we can … also investigate the effect of a changing spread between winner and loser prize. In line with theory, teams reduce effort …

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 …

Tournaments are widely used to assign bonuses and determine promotions because of the link between relative performance … stimulate effort. Through a real-effort artefactual field experiment with factory workers and university students as a … comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may …

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …