team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities … design ; functions ; centralization ; M-form ; hierarchy ; top management team ; information technology ; activities …

We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort … weakly lower wages. -- Team work ; self-selection …

requires reasonably accurate public information concerning the behavior of each player. We provide a model of team production … willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group … reciprocity in teams. -- team production ; public good ; monitoring ; punishment ; experiment …

damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate …

team work if their co-workers do the same. We show that there is no pooling in equilibrium, and that workers self …-select into firms that differ in their incentives as well as their resulting level of team work. Our model can explain why firms …

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We … show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members … identifies that team governance is driven by the importance of tasks that cannot be monitored. The more important these tasks …

negative effect if they are substitutes. The theory is tested using panel data on the performance of baseball players from 1970 … performance of his peers, but decreases with the quality of the team's pitching. Furthermore, a pitcher's performance increases … with the pitching quality of his teammates, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are …

a simple model of team production we examine the interplay of different types of contracts with social norms. We show …

provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production … induced values, which is useful for theory-testing purposes as well as for applications. …