We show that the free-riding problem in short-lived teams is not as severe as previously thought. Two critical conditions are: team members can observe each other’s effort periodically, which makes mutual monitoring possible; technology is convex (increasing marginal returns) or has a “completion benefit.” In principal-agent settings, mutual monitoring reduces the necessary wage payment to indu...

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The Basic Issue: In economic situations involving multiple agents, the primary source of uncertainty is often the behavior of other agents. This behavioral uncertainty can lead to situations in which, starting from the same structural conditions, multiple outcomes are possible depending on the expectations of the agents. For example, an economy might experience two possible outcomes as follows:...

We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort, and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating equilibrium in which workers self-select into different firms and firms employing cooperative workers make strictly positive profits. Profit differences across firms persist because cooperation stric...

Author Contact: K. G. Stewart, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 2Y2; e-mail: [email protected]; Phone: (250) 721-8534; FAX: (250) 721-6214 Abstract The appropriate conception of team outputs is investigated by estimating a two-output factor demand system for baseball teams, relative to which single-output models are rejected. There is...

Purpose of Module : To explain what an Andon system is, and what are its. Audible warning to the Operations team that there is a abnormality within that area.Andon , , is a manufacturing term referring to a system to notify. Stack Lights commonly used in AndOn Lean Manufacturing Initiatives.engine team and explains how this culture affects the design of a lean. Production System TPS from which ...

background rapid response teams (rrts) assess patients during early phases of deterioration to reduce patient morbidity and mortality. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the ability of earlier medical intervention by a rrt prompted by clinical instability in patients to reduce the incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrest at our hospital. patients and methods a nonrandomize...

The purpose of this essay is to show the ways in which ethnographic methodology provided a useful means for investigating the work and activity of an emergent game production team and system. With neither expertise in game design nor software programming, the researcher gained access to the unit of analysis, the production of educational computer games, as a research and instructional design ap...

the purpose of this study is investigation the impact of components of action-centered team leadership on team synergy development has been with mediator role of individual learning and team skills. the research method is descriptive-correlation and was based on path analysis. statistical population included all staff of general administration of tax affairs of hamadan province comprised of 518...