This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness … interactions control mechanisms can have hidden costs for reasons specific to group membership. In within-group interactions …. In between-group interactions, agents perceive control more hostile once we condition on their beliefs about principal …

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 …

resulting group gender compositions influence individuals' experiences and broader workplace dynamics. In this paper, we … group, token women are seen as less influential by their peers and are less likely to be chosen to represent the group than … women on majority-women teams. Token women also participate slightly less in group discussions and receive less credit when …

. 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 …

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 …

(SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we assemble important new panel data by merging data from a survey of …

We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision … tasks, implying that team experiences enhance individual problem-solving skills …