This paper uses data from a firm with team production to investigate the association between workers' productivity …, risk aversion and preferred bonus scheme (team or individual). Standard economics make a strong prediction in this case …. Workers persistently producing above the team average should vote for an individual bonus. The only concern that may moderate …

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change – but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …

evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker … plant began paying the two downstream workers for their combined output (team pay). This led to a modest output reduction in …. Workers' behavior before conflict, during conflict, and under team pay is predicted by a model of taste-based discrimination …

investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly … punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team …, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals …

We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likability … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …

While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … matrix of a team, and illustrate the operational practicability of EVP by means of three examples representing different …

We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this … purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes — a ‘team' — as endowed with individual and privately … held information on the joint production process. Once individual information is shared, team members decide individually …