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(SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we assemble important new panel data by merging data from a survey of …
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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 …
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It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...
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relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little … top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region …
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This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
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ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
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This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a positive relationship between the presence of these...
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evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed …We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …
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We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …
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