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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 …
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how to bridge such divides. We study the effects of a major citizenship reform in Germany - the introduction of birthright …
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Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by...
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We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in smaller units are advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for...
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We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...
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more actively in the team-building task. …
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In today's business environment, team work is omnipresent. But might teams be more prone toward non-compliance with … of teams' compliance behavior. In particular, we disentangle the effect of deciding jointly as a team of two from sharing … the economic consequences among both team members. Our findings provide evidence that teams are substantially less …
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show that if the choice of leadership in a team is imprecise or noisy - which may arguably be the case if appointment … selected as team members. On the contrary, and in line with what has been called the "Apollo effect," a "dream team" consisting … of unambiguously higher performing individuals may perform worse in terms of team output than a group composed of lower …
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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. …
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provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
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