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. …

We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1 …,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits …

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue … that a team’s performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue … Deutsche Bundesliga’) between the playing seasons 1986-87 and 2006-07. We find that distance increases a guest team …

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 …

their contribution to team production. The players in the data sample differ regarding their outside options. Different … career opportunities of players may have two effects when their current team struggles against relegation. First, players … jeweiligen Team zurückgelegten Laufdistanz für Fußballer niedriger ist, die ihre Vereine nach einem Ligaabstieg verlassen. Die …

shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We …