We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …

. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likability … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …

We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A … simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. As one potential measure to … encourage help, we augment relative rewards with team rewards determined by the output of the whole team. This theoretical …

basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …