Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

. Subjects display aversion for team work by exiting the partnership even when they believe their partner exerts sufficient …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in - otherwise random - team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …

shows that this overall decrease in efforts is almost entirely driven by the reaction of the ex-ante favorite team. …

this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …

received the same performance - independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … performance. When only one team member's wage was cut, the performance decrease for the workers who received the cut was more than … other team member's wage level. In contrast, workers whose wage was not cut but who witnessed their team member's pay being …

Die Forschung zur Auswirkung von funktionaler Team Diversity auf Teamleistung hat bisher gemischte Ergebnisse gebracht …Research on the relationship between functional diversity and team performance has produced mixed findings. The present … study is designed to investigate possible curvilinear relationships between functional team diversity, trust, elaboration …

received the same performance-independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … performance. When only one team member's wage was cut, the performance decrease for the workers who received the cut was more than … other team member's wage level. In contrast, workers whose wage was not cut but who witnessed their team member's pay being …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers. …