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. …

provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …