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

We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a … 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 …

incentives to compete are strong. -- Intergroup competition ; cooperation ; public goods ; experiment …

vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about …

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not … lead, we report the results of a two-stage public good experiment with endogenous timing. Even though it turns out to be … composition of the team also matters, as publicizing certain attributes of a subject's teammates has an impact on her decision to …

experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …