Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282081 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 389
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
Do self-formed teams perform better than other team structures? Using unique data from Virgo, a Nobel-prize-winning scientific organization with self-formed teams, first, I uncover new evidence on team formation and performance. Then, I develop a structural model to i) estimate which teams perform better controlling for self-formation and ii) evaluate the performance of counterfactual team structures. Regarding i), estimation results show that small teams perform better than large teams. Regarding ii), counterfactual results show that randomly formed teams perform worse than the observed self-formed teams, and teams with a more diverse membership perform better.
Subjects: 
teamwork
entry game
structural estimation
knowledge production
organizational economics
JEL: 
C57
C72
L02
M50
O32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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