Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

.e., a turnaround. We compare communication from leaders to incentive increases and also compare the effectiveness of … randomly selected and elected leaders. While all interventions yield shifts to more efficient equilibria, communication from … more performance-relevant messages. Our results are evidence that the way in which leaders are selected affects their …

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

We use experiments to analyze what type of communication is most effective in achieving cooperation in a simple … collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …

performance traps. Examining the content of managers' communication, the most effective messages specifically request a high …, managers have two instruments at their disposal, increasing employees' financial incentives to coordinate and communication … with employees. We find that communication is a more effective tool than incentive changes for leading organizations out of …

coordination failure by employees using either financial incentives or communication. I compare the choices of subject managers … faster than the undergraduate subject managers. This superior performance is driven neither by differences in the financial … are significantly more likely to use the same å µood-communication strategy as is identified for undergraduate subject …

.e., a turnaround. We compare communication from leaders to incentive increases and also compare the effectiveness of … randomly selected and elected leaders. While all interventions yield shifts to more efficient equilibria, communication from … more performance-relevant messages. Our results are evidence that the way in which leaders are selected affects their …