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more actively in the team-building task. …
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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …
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team projects. …
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of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …
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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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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 …
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Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can … create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and …
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While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … matrix of a team, and illustrate the operational practicability of EVP by means of three examples representing different …
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team production relative to individual production remains largely unexplored. Heat can affect team and individual … production in distinct ways, potentially increasing aggression, thereby complicating team coordination. Conversely, teams may …
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This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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