TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cooper, David J.
AU  - Sutter, Matthias
        TI  - Role Selection and Team Performance
        PY  - 2011/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5892
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5892
        AB  - Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very demanding for buyers and trivial for sellers. Teams perform better when roles are assigned endogenously or teammates are allowed to chat about their decisions, but the interaction effect between endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely explanation for this surprising result.
        KW  - role selection in teams
KW  - team performance
KW  - takeover game
KW  - winner's curse
KW  - communication
KW  - experiment
        ER  -