, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance depends …We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain with 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …. Conversely, team incentives may lead to more co-worker support or to higher peer pressure and thereby can affect the team …

work individually without monetary incentives and are then assigned to teams of two where compensation is based on team …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 …

contract end. We use this setting to study how individual career concerns affect risk-taking behavior and can sabotage team …, combine to hurt team performance. For each additional player in the last three months on contract, the win probability for … that team falls by over 2.6% …

A debate among practicing managers is whether to use cooperative or competitive incentives for team production. While … when team members' abilities are varied. Using a lab experiment, we examine how increasing competitive incentives affects … performance as team composition changes. We find that competitive incentives generally underperform noncompetitive incentives and …

While the impact of formal incentives on individuals is well understood, their impact on teams is less clear. A handful … of field experiments document a small or null impact of incentives on teams. However, these studies do not contrast their … results with the impact of incentives on individuals, and thus, cannot rule out the possibility that the null/small results on …

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

. Incentives did not reduce performance there either. Comparing individuals with groups we find that team-work facilitates creative …It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … also when individuals work together to solve such problems. We do not find a negative impact of incentives on group …