damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate …

We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …

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 … other team member's wage level. In contrast, workers whose wage was not cut but who witnessed their team member's pay being …

this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in – otherwise random – team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change – but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse, then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers …

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 …