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When does team remuneration work? An experimental study on interactions between workplace contexts
Bartke, Simon; Gelhaar, Felix - 2018
The extent to which individuals cooperate depends on the context. This study analyzes how interactions of workplace context elements affect cooperation when free-riding is possible. Context consists of a novel team building exercise, varying degrees of complementarity in production, and...
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How to Induce an Error Management Climate: Experimental Evidence from Newly Formed Teams
Horvath, Dorothee; Keith, Nina; Klamar, Alexander; … - In: Journal of Business and Psychology 38 (2022) 4, pp. 763-775
teams in a controlled setting as a model and tested the effect of two brief interventions on team climate and performance …. In three-person teams, 180 participants worked on two team tasks that required communication and coordination, under 1 of … error management climate as perceived by teams, which in turn positively affected objectively measured team performance …
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The perks of being in the smaller team: incentives in overlapping contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - In: Review of Economic Design (2023), pp. 1-26
We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in smaller units are advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for...
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Groups Are More Libertarian than Individuals
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Feldhaus, Christoph; Kölle, Felix; … - 2024
Using a series of controlled laboratory experiments involving decisions to intervene in others' choice opportunities; we find that groups grant more autonomy to others than individuals. This finding is robust across two decision contexts, one involving individual decision-making (Internality)...
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Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D
Pöge, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
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Betting on diversity: Occupational segregation and gender stereotypes
Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2022
-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with … female task and men more often for the stereotypically male task. Subjects do not believe that homogeneous teams perform …
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Betting on Diversity – Occupational Segregation and Gender Stereotypes
Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2022
-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with … female task and men more often for the stereotypically male task. Subjects do not believe that homogeneous teams perform …
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Who Does the Talking Here? The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Interactions
Hardt, David; Mayer, Lea; Rincke, Johannes - 2023
We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign … individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team … task. By design, effects on team performance can only work through communication. We find that all-male teams communicate …
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Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467821
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Betting on Diversity – Occupational Segregation and Gender Stereotypes
Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2022
-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with … female task and men more often for the stereotypically male task. Subjects do not believe that homogeneous teams perform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467877