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ability or implementation constraints in running a business. Policies aimed at team creation for start-up enterprises may have …
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’s implementation constraints in running a business. Policies aimed at team formation and alleviating family-related constraints may …
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Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (iLBD), Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through...
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We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. In a … other, a relational contract involving teamwork can help to improve an agent's performance. The mutual promise to work … harder is credible because the team breaks up after an agent has not kept this promise - which leads to individual (under …
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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. …
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dominate the team conversation quantitatively. Past exposure to gender-mixed teamwork makes females more reluctant to engage in …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 …
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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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