has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …

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 driver of the effect of self-selection on team performance. We find that when the …

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

The adoption of performance related pay schemes has become increasingly popular in the public sector of several … countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … that team performance as measured in terms of sales, profits and profits per share first increases, and then decreases …

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we …; (v) the performance-enhancing effects of team membership are generally greater and more long-lasting for team members who …