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performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements …Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners … alike have emphasized the potential of leadership to foster performance in these settings. However, the causal impact of …
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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 …We model leadership selection, competition, and decision making in teams with heterogeneous membership composition. We … selected as team members. On the contrary, and in line with what has been called the "Apollo effect," a "dream team" consisting …
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Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related … leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both …
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The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established …. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of …' leadership styles on employees' performance, work style, and mental well-being in times of crisis. Using longitudinal …
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damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate. We …
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The characteristics of endogenously determined sharing rules and the group-size paradox are studied in a model of group contest with the following features: (i) The prize has mixed private-public good characteristics. (ii) Groups can differ in marginal cost of effort and their membership size....
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This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in a laboratory one-shot trust game. To analyze these effects, we apply a 2x2 design. We induce group membership by letting subjects play coordination games with clear focal...
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Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...
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Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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