Episode 38: Robert Dur on Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance

The paper discussed in this episode is “Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment (pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.20…)”, by Josse Delfgaauw (personal.eur.nl/delfgaauw), Robert Dur (personal.eur.nl/dur), Oke Onemu (universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/oke-onem…), and Joeri Sol (uva.nl/en/profile/s/o/j.sol/j.sol.html?cb).

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:
Blanes i Vidal, J., & Nossol, M. (2011). Tournaments without prizes: Evidence from personnel records. Management science, 57(10), 1721-1736.
Carless, S. A., & De Paola, C. (2000). The measurement of cohesion in work teams. Small group research, 31(1), 71-88.
Delfgaauw, J., Dur, R., Sol, J., & Verbeke, W. (2013). Tournament incentives in the field: Gender differences in the workplace. Journal of Labor Economics, 31(2), 305-326.
Dur, R., & Sol, J. (2010). Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives. Games and Economic Behavior, 69(2), 293-301.