In a group audit setting, component auditors receive instructions and communication from a group engagement team … component audit supervisor's preferences and nature of the communication from the group engagement team affect component … reasoning induced by component supervisors' preferences. In an experiment, component auditors who received communication from …

Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis … has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first …