In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …

. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not … composition of the team also matters, as publicizing certain attributes of a subject's teammates has an impact on her decision to … lead. Lastly, though voluntary leaders improve efficiency in their team, they are not necessarily more influential than …

this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production … and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production …