, typically at 10 to 16% per 100 days in a team; (iv) while initially teams lead to more downtime, these costs diminish over time …; (v) the performance-enhancing effects of team membership are generally greater and more long-lasting for team members who … are solicited by management; (vi) similar relationships exist for more educated team members. These findings square with …

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 …

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 …

through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …

How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the … economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations … with and without bonuses awarded to the highest contributors in teams. A purely team-based compensation scheme induces …