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The impact of managerial change on performance: The role of team heterogeneity
Hentschel, Sandra; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2012
. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289908
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity
Hentschel, Sandra; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578210
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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
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Money for Something: The Links between Research Funding and Innovation
Glennon, Britta; Lane, Julia; Sodhi, Ridhima - 2018
the next generation of scientists and inventors – teams funded by research grants – leads to innovative activity as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931676
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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence
Roider, Andreas; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2004
other in a team. Our results suggest that asymmetric teams where these benefits vary across team members are especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261919
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Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams
Kräkel, Matthias - 1999
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the … formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262295
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From team spirit to jealousy: the pitfalls of too much transparency
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2005
Free riding in team production arises because individual effort is not perfectly observable. It seems natural to suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks transparency about individual contributions despite negligible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267330
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Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Evidence from new Japanese data
Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - 2007
by Japanese firms (such as cross-functional offline teams and self-managed online teams). One novel finding (which is … consistent with the theory) is that the adoption of both self-managed online teams and cross-functional offline teams usually … arises in firms with shop-floor committees while the introduction of cross-functional offline teams alone often takes place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268141
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The effect of intragroup communication on preference shifts in groups
Brady, Michael P.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2008
We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that dictate how group members interact and reach decisions in comparison to individuals acting alone. We find that group decisions do deviate from those of individuals, but the direction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268757
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
conflicting forces into account. The comparative statics results suggest a link between the increased use of teams and recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271239