How does leadership work in teams? In this paper, leadership is grounded on both the possession of a private information by the leader and by her ability to communicate credibly with followers in order to induce them to expand high efforts. This paper reports an experiment testing the efficiency...

In the context of globalization, organizations proceed to adapt to exploit new opportunities by creating intercultural work teams (IWT). Consequently, their management acquires new dimensions. To be successful, international companies should adapt to cultural norms of the host country, without...

Many empirical studies have shed light on the efficiency of peer pressure. I propose here to model peer pressure by incorporating in the utility function self centered inequity aversion. I find that opportunity for sufficiently inequity averse players to punish their peers, is effective in...