This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous … variation in – otherwise random – team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured …

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance …? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies … under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition by assigning students …

shirking members in those teams. -- ability dispersion ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge …This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous …

self-managed ad hoc teams. Therefore, we aimed to investigate (1) the influence of team task engagement and mastery … experiences on collective efficacy beliefs and (2) the temporal relationship between team task engagement and task performance … positive emotional states (i.e., team task engagement) and mastery experiences (teams' past task performance). The study …

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randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade … experiment ; entrepreneurship education ; entrepreneurship …