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Culture and team production

2018

Abstract This paper addresses theoretically the question whether culture has an effect on economic performance in team production, and what would be an optimal team culture. The members of a team are guided both by economic incentives and by personal norms, weighed according to their prevailing level of materialism. We assume that personal norms evolve following a dynamic driven by a combination of psychological mechanisms such as consistency and conformism. The different vectors of materialism, consistency and conformism shared by the group result in a continuum of cultures characterized by different combinations of individualism and collectivism. Team culture turns out to be a fundamental…

Economics and EconometricsOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementIndividualistic cultureCognitive dissonance and conformity; Culture and performance; Individualism versus collectivism; Skills and remuneration distributions; Team production; Economics and Econometrics; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management05 social sciencesCollectivismCulture and performanceCognitive dissonance and conformitySettore SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICASkills and remuneration distributionsIndividualismIncentiveIncome distributionPolitical science0502 economics and businessIndividualism versus collectivismRemunerationTeam production050207 economicsMaterialismTeam productionSocial psychology050203 business & management
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