We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self …-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the … collaboration intensity of the task as the key driver of the effect of self-selection on team performance. We find that when the …

We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self …-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the … collaboration intensity of the task as the key driver of the effect of self-selection on team performance. We find that when the …

We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self …-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the … collaboration intensity of the task as the key driver of the effect of self-selection on team performance. We find that when the …

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance …? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies … under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition by assigning students …

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous … variation in – otherwise random – team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured …

A novel field experiment shows that learning activities in pairs with a greater spread in abilities lead to better …

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous … variation in - otherwise random - team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured …

-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes …

We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain of 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance … increases with the team's social cohesion, because social cohesion reduces free-riding behavior. In addition, team incentives …