This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios …

team projects. …

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 model leadership selection, competition, and decision making in teams with heterogeneous membership composition. We … 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 …

Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when … actions. The resulting decisions may be less, rather than more, risky. Making a decision after acquiring information provides … return. Further results on the form of contracts are also derived. -- managers ; risky decisions ; limited liability …