One acclaimed role of managers is to monitor workers in team production processes and discipline them through the … threat of terminating them from the team (Alchian and Demsetz, 1972). We extend a standard weakest link experiment with a … manager that can decide to replace some of her team members at a cost. The amount of contractual commitment ("termination …

One acclaimed role of managers is to monitor workers in team production processes and discipline them through the … threat of terminating them from the team (Alchian and Demsetz, 1972). We extend a standard weakest link experiment with a … manager that can decide to replace some of her team members at a cost. The amount of contractual commitment (‘termination …

In autonomous teams, formal responsibility for tasks and decisions is shared among different team members, creating … uncertainty about how much influence each team member effectively has . We use a modified participative budgeting game to ex …-amine how team members of autonomous teams deal with this uncertainty in the context of cost reporting decisions. Our results …

Diversity of team members and discrimination against certain member types are important strategic factors in … effect of discrimination against or in favor of some team members in equilibrium and introduce a contest organizer who can … manipulate the extent of such a discrimination to promote diversity. When the team managers are relatively uncertain which member …

. 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 …