Arbeitspapier
Measuring "Group Cohesion" to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production
We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive associations between group cohesion and performance assessed in weak-link coordination games, with high-cohesion groups being very likely to achieve superior equilibria. In exploratory analysis, we identify beliefs rather than social preferences as the primary mechanism through which factors proxied by group cohesion influence group performance. Our evidence provides proof-of-concept for group cohesion as a useful tool for economic research and practice.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9936
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
- Thema
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team work
group cohesion
social relationships
coordination
weak link games
experiments
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gaechter, Simon
Starmer, Chris
Tufano, Fabio
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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08.12.0001, 22:54 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gaechter, Simon
- Starmer, Chris
- Tufano, Fabio
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2022