We study optimal team design. In our model, a principal assigns either heterogeneous agents to a team (a diverse team …) or homogenous agents to a team (a specialized team) to perform repeated team production. We assume that specialized teams … fostering desirable implicit/relational incentives that team members can provide to each other (tacit cooperation). In contrast …

Echelon Theorie generiert. Die Dissertation ist in vier kumulative Kapitel gegliedert: (a) Überblick über den gegenwärtigen … Stand der Forschung zur CEO-TMT Schnittstelle sowie deren Beitrag zur Upper Echelons Theorie; (b) Untersuchung des …

This paper explores the extent to which team identity can deter shirking and free-riding behavior in a team production … setting. Team identity is manufactured and identification is enhanced by a variety of means. Created team identity is chosen … over existing team identity to ensure that all subjects recognize their own (and others’) team identity. Subjects then …

themselves into teams. How do teams form absent a central authority? We introduce a model of team formation in which workers … teams, and (ii) even when a diverse team is efficient, a worker may prefer to join a homogeneous team if she can exert less …