shirking members in those teams. -- ability dispersion ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge …This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous …

specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program … ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether the effect of more balanced skills is also positive in a team of … results show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced …

. -- ethnic diversity ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; (mutual) learning …One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of … ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up …

We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self …-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the … collaboration intensity of the task as the key driver of the effect of self-selection on team performance. We find that when the …

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 …

plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study …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 …

-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes …

We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response … received the same performance - independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … performance. When only one team member's wage was cut, the performance decrease for the workers who received the cut was more than …

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 …

randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade … experiment ; entrepreneurship education ; entrepreneurship …