Journal of Labor Economics · 2024 · Florian Englmaier、Stefan Grimm、Dominik Grothe、David Schindler、Simeon Schudy
中文摘要
锦标赛常被用于提升创新情境下的绩效。锦标赛提供货币激励，但也使团队的认同与形象关切变得显著。我们研究了锦标赛对非常规任务中团队绩效的影响，并识别了这些行为方面的重要性。在一项实地实验中（n>1,700名参与者），我们改变了团队认同、社会形象关切的显著性，以及团队是否面临货币激励。团队认同显著性的增加并未提升绩效。社会形象激励了顶尖表现者。额外的货币激励改善了所有团队的结果，且未挤出团队探索或再次执行类似任务的意愿。
Abstract
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 nonroutine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a field experiment (n>1, 700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team identity does not improve performance. Social image motivates the top performers. Additional monetary incentives improve all teams’ outcomes without crowding out teams’ willingness to explore or perform similar tasks again.