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...

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 Anpassung des methodischen Handelns von Evaluierenden an die jeweiligen situativen und praktischen Umstände wird in der Regel als ein Hemmnis für eine adäquate Methodenanwendung betrachtet. Mit dieser Arbeit wird alternativ versucht, die Professionalität von Evaluierenden in Bezug zu den...

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...

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...

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...

We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...

Women's representation on corporate boards, political committees, and other decision-making teams is increasing, this is in part because of legal mandates. Evidence on team dynamics and gender differences in preferences (for example, risk-taking behavior, taste for competition, prosocial...

Individuals and two-person teams play a hidden - action trust game with pre - play communication. We replicate previous results for individuals that non-binding promises increase cooperation rates. But this does not extend to teams. Wh ile teams make non-binding promises to cooperate at the same...

In the context of an economic and financial crisis characterized by scarce munificence and high uncertainty, we examine the role of organizational ambidexterity in SMEs survival, and the TMT and ownership characteristics that influence ambidexterity. Our analysis of Spanish manufacturing SMEs in...

Formation of effective teams of experts has played a crucial role in successful projects especially in social networks. In this paper, a new particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed for solving a team formation optimization problem by minimizing the communication cost among...

Intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) are critical to fostering innovation and their relevance has grown enormously with the increased trade in goods and services involving intellectual property. Scholars have investigated what factors facilitate or hinder the use of such IP...

Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...

We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team...