This paper explores the extent to which team identity can deter shirking and free-riding behavior in a team production … setting. Team identity is manufactured and identification is enhanced by a variety of means. Created team identity is chosen … over existing team identity to ensure that all subjects recognize their own (and others’) team identity. Subjects then …

group diversity on group risk taking. I measure econometrically the effects of various aspects of subjects' diversity … significantly higher risk taking by groups as compared to individuals. Furthermore, the only dimension of diversity with an effect …

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …