We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1 … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits …

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …

literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few … and quits are more common in Italy and Spain than in Germany and France, suggesting institutions may be important. We …

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …

. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …. In this paper we analyse the strategic interactions across subteams created by a two-level team structure, in order to … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …

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 …

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …