theoretically that these teams are beneficial to employers, who can outsource the monitoring of workers. Team members are … incentivized to exert a high level of effort because any deviation would lead to the dissolution of their production team. Data …

gender stereotypes in preferences for team formation and examine the effect of information on changing these preferences. We …- the influence of homophily on team formation. …

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 …

Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners … performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements … can serve as a cost-effective tool to foster team performance. …

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …

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 …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers. -- incentives ; attention ; salience ; communication ; field …

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 … salience of team identity does not improve performance. Social-image motivates mainly the top-performing teams. Additional …

We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …