Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team’s 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 …