is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members. -- entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; skill … heterogeneity ; team dynamics …

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 …