Journal article
ENDOGENOUS ROLE ASSIGNMENT AND TEAM PERFORMANCE
International economic review (Philadelphia), Vol.59(3), pp.1547-1569
08/01/2018
DOI: 10.1111/iere.12313
Abstract
We study how the mechanism used for assigning roles within teams affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in buyer-seller teams. Understanding optimal play is demanding for buyers and trivial for sellers, so teams should perform better if the buyer is the abler teammate. When teammates are allowed to jointly choose their roles, abler teammates tend to become buyers, but this is more than offset by disruptions to the learning process. We examine two potential sources for the latter effect and find that endogenous role assignment has a negative psychological and emotional effect on buyers.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- ENDOGENOUS ROLE ASSIGNMENT AND TEAM PERFORMANCE
- Creators
- David J. Cooper - Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USAMatthias Sutter - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- International economic review (Philadelphia), Vol.59(3), pp.1547-1569
- DOI
- 10.1111/iere.12313
- ISSN
- 0020-6598
- eISSN
- 1468-2354
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 23
- Grant note
- P22772-G11 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF Project); Austrian Science Fund (FWF) SES-0924772; SES-1227298 / NSF; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984420938802771
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