find that weak ties assist solo entrepreneurs and have positive significant effects on new venture performance. For team …

use professional sports data from the TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga, the major handball league in Germany. Using either … shows that this overall decrease in efforts is almost entirely driven by the reaction of the ex-ante favorite team. …

themselves have evaluated before. -- Subjective performance evaluation ; bias ; social ties ; team size ; favoritism …

Previous research on entrepreneurial teams has failed to settle the controversy over whether team heterogeneity helps … disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by modeling two separate heterogeneity dimensions, namely knowledge scope … support for our contention of team heterogeneity as a two-dimensional concept. Results suggest that knowledge disparity …

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …