Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

’ performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find that if team performance is determined by the best performer (the "best …-shot technology"), then both public and private feedback are better than no feedback unless the team is composed of all low performers …, in which case no feedback is best. If, on the other hand, team performance is determined by the worst performer (the …

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …

-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our … workers regularly overstate their own contribution to the joint team output. Misreporting seems to spread distrust within the … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …

conforming to Nash equilibrium behavior. We conduct an experiment on a minority-of-three game in which each player is a team … composed by three subjects. Each team can freely discuss its strategies in the game and decisions must be made via a majority … rule. Team discussions are recorded and their content analyzed to detect evidence of strategy co-evolution among teams …

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …

. Additional treatments begin to explore the basis for the team outcome, ruling out explanations that team payoff structures drive … b ehavior. Analysis of within-team discussions provides insight into the decision-making processes of first and second …