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In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …
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In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
This paper analyzes the impact of heterogeneous (social) preferences on the weighting and combination of performance measures as well as on a firm's profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum of possible preferences and show that the principal...
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with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate …, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real effort experiment conducted with … managers within a large pharmaceutical company not only show that changes in compensation incentives affect performance but …
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tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …
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We propose experiments in virtual reality (VR) as a new approach to examining behavior in an economic context, e.g., heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments. We simulate a realistic working situation in a highly immersive environment. Implementing a tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the...
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competition. Nevertheless, there are models of team-organization such that team-firms and individual firms are behaviorally …In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modelled as individual decision makers and the … equivalent. This provides a theoretical foundation for the unitary player assumption in Cournot competition. We show that this …
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, 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. …
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, 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 …
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, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219102