We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. In a … other, a relational contract involving teamwork can help to improve an agent's performance. The mutual promise to work … harder is credible because the team breaks up after an agent has not kept this promise - which leads to individual (under …

Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners … performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements … can serve as a cost-effective tool to foster team performance. …

Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for … increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R …&D firms need to finish research projects as quickly as possible and therefore have an incentive to put together a team with …

) to teamwork (doubles). I find that around 50% of variation in team output is explained by team skills. This is robust to … their value-added to team production to identify team skills: a worker's contribution to team production above and beyond …, but team skills only in team production. Professional men's tennis provides a useful setting to compare solo work (singles …

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the … impact on team performance as good workers. People who nominate themselves to be in charge perform worse than managers …

Teamwork is growing in developed economies, and workers in teams are increasingly compensated according to team output …. Because parsing individual contributions to teamwork is difficult, I focus on scholarly economics research, which lists … contributing authors. I use turnover to identify team value-added: an author's average output quality conditional on the value …