We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the collaboration intensity of the task as the key...

Note: This paper is a pre-publication version of "Bajic, S. and Yurtoglu, B. (2018), "Which aspects of CSR predict firm market value?", Journal of Capital Markets Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 50-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCMS-10-2017-0002"There is evidence that corporate social responsibility...

We investigate the effect of team formation and task characteristics on performance in highstakes team tasks. In two field experiments, randomly assigned teams performed significantly better than self-selected teams in a task that allowed for an unequal work distribution. The effect was reversed...

We study the relationship between female representation on boards and firm value and profitability in Turkey from 2011 to 2018, relying on hand-collected data covering the vast majority of listed firms. We build several proxies of female representation on boards and find no evidence that female...