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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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provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
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Collective contests are examined permitting heterogeneity of stakes within every competing group. Our first concern is whether unequal distribution of stakes in a group can enhance its win probability. Our second concern is whether a large stake in a group can be individually disadvantageous. We...
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observable. A team incentive scheme, where each agent is paid a bonus for aggregate output above a threshold, is optimal in case … (a). The team's efficiency may increase considerably with size if outputs are negatively correlated. Under (b) a … performance. The two cases reveal that it may be optimal to organize production as a team where only aggregate output is …
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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 …
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Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … experiment suggests that top performers are particularly motivated by the combination of team incentives and team RPF. In fact …
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We study how restrictive immigration policies and the unexpected loss of peers affect the performance of skilled migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find that employees who lost peers of the same ethnic...
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Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as text or video messages, provide different levels...
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The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods may be important elements of the smooth functioning of an office, but...
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Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...
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