This paper investigates the individual and joint effects of group incentive pay and problem-solving teams on … these production lines. We find strong support for the proposition that problem-solving teams are an important means for … adoption of work practices, we find that problem-solving teams are adopted only in the presence of incentive pay plans, and …

features a pattern of sorting of coworkers across teams that is inefficiently positive. This inefficiency results in low human …

We explore the role of founding teams in accounting for the post-entry dynamics of startups. While the entrepreneurship … literature has largely focused on business founders, we broaden this view by considering founding teams as both the founders and …, effects are stronger for firms with small founding teams and those operating in business-to-business (B2B) oriented sectors …

and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers … and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors' productivity over the life cycle, inventors' research teams … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of …

the teams that primary care physicians (PCPs) assemble when they refer patients to specialists. Our theoretical model …

practices, training, and teamwork. Many questions are asked. Why should pay vary across workers within firms--and how … work? How are pay and promotions structured across jobs to induce optimal effort from employees? Why do firms use teams and … how are teams used most effectively? How should all these human resource management practices, from incentive pay to …