We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign … individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team … task. By design, effects on team performance can only work through communication. We find that all-male teams communicate …

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 …

Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the …

exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …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 …

-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with … female task and men more often for the stereotypically male task. Subjects do not believe that homogeneous teams perform …

constraints differently for male and female entrepreneurs, for both individual entrepreneurs and for entrepreneurial teams. In a …, but no bias for entrepreneurial teams. The bias is not driven by animus but by differential beliefs about women …’s implementation constraints in running a business. Policies aimed at team formation and alleviating family-related constraints may …

supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …