This paper reviews the fourth decade of self-leadership research. Two previous reviews of self-leadership from 2006 and 2010 are summarized, and the paper applies categories from those reviews to examine recent research in the field. This paper also covers new topics and trends in...

Im Zuge der Umstrukturierung von Arbeit wird vermehrt selbstorganisierte Teamarbeit anhand verschiedener Konzepte in Unternehmen umgesetzt. In der Study werden nachfolgende Regelungs- und Ansatzpunkte für gut gestaltete Teamarbeit ausführlich dargestellt. Grundlage sind 79 Betriebs- und...

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team allocator games are intended to capture natural asymmetries...

Purpose: Employee participation is considered a fundamental pillar to implement continuous improvement. Based on this consideration, this article presents an action research case study in a large food manufacturer where employee participation is implemented. The experience has a two-fold...

The aim of this research is to assess impact of narcissistic trait of leadership on team creativity. Focus of our research will be to analyze the mediating effect of information searching effort along with the moderating effect of environmental uncertainty between narcissistic leadership and...

We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...

A debate among practicing managers is whether to use cooperative or competitive incentives for team production. While competitive incentives may drive individual effort higher, they may also lead to less help and more sabotage; an issue exacerbated when team members' abilities are varied. Using a...

Do labor mobility, and co-worker networks contribute to convergence or divergence between regions? Based on the previous literature, labor mobility contributes to knowledge transfer between firms. Therefore, mobility may contribute to decreasing productivity differences, while limited mobility...

We investigated the impacts of president longevity and the geographic orientation of owners on team performance and on the effectiveness of dismissing the leader. In addition, we considered their impacts on the effectiveness of not dismissing the leader while the same organisation fires them at...

We analyse Esport data of professional CS:GO teams to shed light on the question of whether diverse teams survive longer. We also control for the prize money as a time dependent covariate. Another focus is on the liability of newness hypothesis.

Diversity is one of the main characteristics of social groups, including work-teams. At the same time, gender is an important aspect of diversity in organizations, and gender diversity deals with the equal representation of men and women in the workplace. This article aims to analyze the issue...

The aim of this article is to explore the decision-making policies by Polish Venture Capital (VC) firms, with special focus on the perception of entrepreneurs. This paper presents the results of a conjoint analysis and assessment of the importance of select characteristics among entrepreneurs...

Today's business world is increasingly globalized and increasingly complex and therefore requires companies to operate across multiple countries, cultures and modes of work. Companies are met with demands from shareholders and civil society to manage their business in a responsible and ethical...

Die nachfolgende Zusammenfassung der Studie "Nutzerpräferenzen von Coworking Spaces" zeigt die Bedeutung von Flexible Office Space auf und arbeitet präferierte Charakteristiken und Attribute der flexiblen Arbeitsplätze heraus. Die Ergebnisse wurden über eine empirische Befragung in deutschen...

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

Viele Kommunikationsmanager stehen vor der Herausfoderung, agile Strukturen zu implementieren und ihr Team agiler zu gestalten - keine leichte Aufgabe, denn es gilt vieles zu beachten. Es bedarf einer neuen Unternehmenskultur, neuer Prozesse und Tools, neuer Kompetenzen und...

Volunteering is a widespread allocation mechanism at the workplace and emerges naturally in open-source software development, the generation of online knowledge platforms, and to some extent in "agile" work environments. Using a field experiment with 8 treatments and close to 2,800 workers on an...

We investigate the quality provision behavior and its implications for the occurrence of collusion in competitive health care markets where providers are assumed to be altruistic towards patients. For this, we employ a laboratory experiment with a health care market framing where subjects decide...

We study bribing in a sequential team contest with multiple pairwise battles. We allow for asymmetries in winning prizes and marginal costs of effort; and we characterize the conditions under which (i) a player in a team is offered a bribe by the owner of the other team and (ii) she accepts the...

Dieser Artikel zeigt, wie erfolgreiche Teams ihre Mitarbeiter-Ressourcen besser nutzen. Dafür wird das Verhältnis zwischen der Team-Diversity und der Teamleistung anhand der neu eingeführten Interaktionsvariable Aktive Diskussion analysiert. Auf der Basis einer empirischen Analyse über 111...

Purpose: Grounded to social identity and information decision theories, the study develops and empirically verifies a fresh theoretical model on the possible mediating effect of emotional and task conflicts toward the associations between diversity (work, social, and ideology) and project...

We examine the association between network centrality and research using the accounting research community setting. We establish co-authorship network using papers published in the five top accounting journals from 1980 to 2016. We find that the co-authorship network in accounting is a "small...

Artists are often seen as innovators and producers of creative and extraordinary new ideas. Additionally, experiencing art and artistic processes is an important opportunity for learning and exploration. Thus, corporations and scientific organizations have experimented with initiatives that...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between emotional, managerial, and intellectual competence of team members, which refer to the LDQ (Leadership Development Questionnaire) and impact on project success. (1) Background: Large and complex projects are being conducted in a...

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Teamzusammensetzung als Determinante von Teamprozessen und Teamerfolgsgrößen. Dabei wurde auf Basis der Faultline-Theorie untersucht, inwiefern sich Stärke und Art der Faultline in einem bestimmten Kontext bezüglich der Attribute Geschlecht und...

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Teamzusammensetzung als Determinante von Teamprozessen und Teamerfolgsgrößen. Dabei wurde auf Basis der Faultline-Theorie untersucht, inwiefern sich Stärke und Art der Faultline in einem bestimmten Kontext bezüglich der Attribute Geschlecht und...

In jedem Arbeitsverhältnis spielen Emotionen eine Rolle. Solange das Teamklima stimmt, klappt die Arbeit. Was aber, wenn Probleme auftauchen? Wenn plötzlich die Emotionen hochkochen? Und Kleinigkeiten zu Grundsatzproblemen anwachsen? Franz Will zeigt, welche Emotionen die Teamdynamik bestimmen...

Using a sample of 61 teams (i.e., 305 employees and 61 leaders) from multiple banks, this study examines a multilevel model of the influence of dual effects of leader political skill (LPS) on followers’ performance at two levels. We examined the effect of followers’ perception of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine, among the possible causes, whether trust in the leader is one of the most relevant factors on the success of a virtual work team by analyzing different antecedents of the trust and its consequences. Design/methodology/approach: The influence that...

The notion of organizational hierarchy is disputed, also in view of the rise of new organizational forms claimed to have "hierarchies without bosses." To better understand the contested nature of hierarchy, this essay provides a systemic perspective on organizational hierarchy defined as a...