other in a team. Our results suggest that asymmetric teams where these benefits vary across team members are especially …

This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the … formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage …

by Japanese firms (such as cross-functional offline teams and self-managed online teams). One novel finding (which is … consistent with the theory) is that the adoption of both self-managed online teams and cross-functional offline teams usually … arises in firms with shop-floor committees while the introduction of cross-functional offline teams alone often takes place …

conflicting forces into account. The comparative statics results suggest a link between the increased use of teams and recent …

We present experiments exploring why high ability workers join teams with less able co-workers when there are no short … of teaching. High ability workers are more willing to join teams in the absence of revenue sharing and less willing to … join teams when they cannot communicate. When communication is possible, the choice of high ability workers to join teams …