Testing for Team Spirit
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Team spirit is often suggested as a counter-balancing power to free-riding. Testing for team spirit with field data is difficult, however, due to an inherent identification problem. In this paper we use experimental methods to identify team spirit against potential confounding factors. In a team work task we vary subjects’ information about relative team performance while we leave unchanged the structure of explicit incentives. We find that subjects contribute more to their team’s project when teams observe each others’ performance. We discriminate team spirit as implication of mutual peer pressure between teams as cause for this result.
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