Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

efforts. We use team members' dialogues to explain these effects of communication, and check the robustness of our results. …We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals …, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination in order to win the inter-team competition. Introducing …

efforts. We use team members? dialogues to explain these effects of communication, and check the robustness of our results …. -- tournament ; team decision making ; communication ; collusion ; freeriding ;experiment …We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals …

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 …