Successful open source software (OSS) projects can be considered as examples of how ambitious work results can be achieved in web-based collaboration even when monetary incentives are low or absent. While former explorations of motivational processes in OSS projects primarily focused on...

When thinking about the two terms “creativity” and “negotiation,” common sense seems to say that those two do not go together well. However, as we will argue below, common sense is not a good counselor in this case. In this chapter, we illustrate that creativity plays a key role in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on new research that explores the effect of co‐worker friendship and performance norms on the Köhler motivation gain effect. Design/methodology/approach – Females worked at a motor persistence task with either a more capable coactor or with...

Purpose – This study seeks to extend previous research on experts with mainly ad‐hoc groups from laboratory research to a field setting. Specifically, this study aims to investigate experts' relative importance in team performance. Expertise is differentiated into two categories (task...

Purpose – Hidden profiles are decision‐making tasks in which groups have the potential to outperform individual decision‐makers. This paper has two purposes: first, to provide a conceptual analysis of how the group potential for solving hidden profiles can be measured; second, to empirically...

Purpose – This study seeks to explore why some teams realize performance gains and others do not. Team identification is proposed as an explanatory mechanism of performance. Design/methodology/approach – Data from two longitudinal studies with 42 teams (270 individuals) are examined using...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare effects of different monetary team‐based reward strategies on performance, pay satisfaction, and communication behavior in computer‐mediated groups. Design/methodology/approach – In a laboratory experiment, 32 groups of undergraduate...