“No Man is an Island”: An Empirical Study on Team Formation and Performance

Alessandra Allocca
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Alessandra Allocca: LMU Munich

No 389, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series from CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition

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.

Keywords: teamwork; entry game; structural estimation; knowledge production; organizational economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C57 C72 M50 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02-21
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