TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Grözinger, Nicola
AU  - Irlenbusch, Bernd
AU  - Laske, Katharina
AU  - Schröder, Marina
        TI  - Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study
        PY  - 2020/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13218
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13218
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - creativity
KW  - communication
KW  - laboratory experiment
KW  - real-effort
KW  - complex problem solving
KW  - innovation
        ER  -