%0 Report
        %A Grözinger, Nicola
%A Irlenbusch, Bernd
%A Laske, Katharina
%A Schröder, Marina
        %T Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13218
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13218
        %X In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no significant difference between performances of groups that communicate via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams can be mitigated by real-time video conference communication.
        %K creativity
%K communication
%K laboratory experiment
%K real-effort
%K complex problem solving
%K innovation