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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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Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce …. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … precise when the provision of team-based incentives crowds out the productivity enhancing effect of social connections under …
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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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in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the … two domains indicated both negative and positive peer influences in honesty and in cooperation, with negative influences …
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This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
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cooperation in a partner setting. We systematically vary a group's composition from all individuals being partner over blended … composition does not affect cooperation in the subsequent partner setting with one exception: Groups cooperate significantly less …
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