We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that …. This suggests that no general statements can be made concerning the propensity of groups to exhibit reciprocal or other …

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

a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare an exogenous and an endogenous decision …. Our results reveal that both — the decision to extend a contract and the decision mechanism itself — affect not only the … group after the decision has been made. …

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …

We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced … by Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988). We find that populating such markets with teams of size two instead of … individuals significantly reduces the severity of mispricing. In particular we observe that under our teams treatment, deviations …

importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the … intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …

examining the trade-off of acting based on in-group favouritism or a performance signal when decisions are made about whom to … choose as a team mate. The novel feature of your study is that the choice of a team mate is either benevolence or relevant to … decision affected the decider's own payoff as well as that of the chosen subject. The subjects ex ante knew the group type …

Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce …. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely …

We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that …. This suggests that no general statements can be made concerning the propensity of groups to exhibit reciprocal or other …