Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and … the same social network. Our results point to the important role of group identities in overcoming self-interests and …

. Possibly they expected reciprocal behaviour and less free riding if they selected a team mate belonging to their own group … fraternities or sororities or in high donations to faculties. In our study, we focus on the in-group favouritism of students by … examining the trade-off of acting based on in-group favouritism or a performance signal when decisions are made about whom to …

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 their self- but also other group members' image. This behavior is frequent … even in the absence of group identity. When group identity is more salient, individuals help regardless of whether the …

workers has a positive impact on work team and firm performance. We examine one possible resolution to this puzzle by …

randomly assigned to an age homogenous or heterogeneous group using data from two TV shows. The data also allows us to explore … effects occur in the short run, but fade away once group members have gotten to know each other. …

's performance, but are not observed by anybody; in the last group subjects work in isolation, neither observing, nor being observed …. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are …

We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain of 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance … increases with the team's social cohesion, because social cohesion reduces free-riding behavior. In addition, team incentives …

We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in … a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare an exogenous and an endogenous decision … mechanism to extend the temporary agent's group membership. The exogenous mechanism to extend the contract is modeled by a …