What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance … under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition by assigning students … to teams based on their measured cognitive abilities (Raven test). Each team performs a variety of tasks, often involving …

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … the status of the entrepreneur. For reasons outlined in the introduction, this study focuses on (800) students in the …

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in … hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to … the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority …

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the …-established approaches for the analysis of power in non-hierarchical organizations such as the Banzhaf measure; and thus they are all based …

This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A … goods signals. If concern for status is sufficiently high, then the firm will only place a single variety on the market. …