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 …

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 …

shirking members in those teams. -- ability dispersion ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge …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 …

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of … ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic … diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as …. We find that a moderate level of ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales …

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 …

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 …

specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program … ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether the effect of more balanced skills is also positive in a team of … results show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced …