Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for … increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R …&D firms need to finish research projects as quickly as possible and therefore have an incentive to put together a team with …

In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the … impact on team performance as good workers. People who nominate themselves to be in charge perform worse than managers …

complementary skills. However, teamwork may also substitute intensive selection if team members engage in mutual monitoring and peer …Teamwork has become widely embraced in recent decades; however, its adoption carries significant implications that … require thorough understanding. In this paper, we study the relationship between teamwork and selection intensity. The use of …

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

. About 430 students from an Italian University took an intermediate exam that was partly evaluated on the basis of teamwork …. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …

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 …