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Team formation with complementary skills
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2019-11-01
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Büyükboyacı Hanay, Mürüvvet İlknur
Robbett, Andrea
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One explanation for the prevalence of self-managed work teams is that they enable workers with complementary skills to specialize in the tasks they do best, a benefit that may be enhanced if workers can sort themselves into teams. To assess this explanation, we design a real-effort experiment to study the endogenous formation of teams, and its effect on productivity, when specialization either is or is not feasible. We find a strong positive interaction between endogenous team formation and the ability to specialize, indicating that endogenous team formation is a particularly effective mechanism for promoting team output in production environments that enable the exploitation of skill complementarities.
Subject Keywords
Management of Technology and Innovation
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Strategy and Management
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Economics and Econometrics
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General Business, Management and Accounting
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47530
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JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12296
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Department of Economics, Article