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temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …
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temporary group member's effort but also the efforts of the permanent group members and, ultimately, also cooperation within the …
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assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates … countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices …. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …
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We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have … conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock contest, and measure its effects upon cooperation using a multi …-level public good game. We demonstrate that conflict increases cooperation within groups, while decreasing cooperation between …
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intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree of cooperation in firms using a … importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the …
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We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if …
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We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...
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With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the mechanisms behind the deep and perpetual divide over face masks in America. Using a random sample of Americans...
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Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer in their group. We show that a majority of individuals are willing to pay to preserve not only...
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NGOs and other non-profit organizations attract workers who strongly identify themselves with their missions. We study whether these "good guys" are more trustworthy and how such pronounced group identities affect trust and trustworthiness within the groups and toward out-groups. We find that...
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