Managing diversity by creating team identity Academic Article

abstract

• This paper explores the extent to which team identity can deter shirking and free-riding behavior in a team production setting. Team identity is manufactured and identification is enhanced by a variety of means. Created team identity is chosen over existing team identity to ensure that all subjects recognize their own (and others') team identity. Subjects then participate in a repeated-play public goods game, framed as a team production problem. Analysis of the experiments compares aggregate team decisions based on the strength of team identity. 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

authors

• Eckel, Catherine

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Eckel, C. C., & Grossman, P. J.

citation count

• 274

complete list of authors

• Eckel, CC||Grossman, PJ

publication date

• November 2005

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization  Journal

keywords

• Diversity
• Experiments
• Identity
• Public Goods
• Teams

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jebo.2004.01.003

start page

• 371

end page

• 392

volume

• 58

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.jebo.2004.01.003