Bruhin Adrian, Petros Fidel, Santos-Pinto Luís
Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
WZB Berlin and TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Exp Econ. 2024;27(3):687-712. doi: 10.1007/s10683-024-09829-x. Epub 2024 May 18.
Teamwork has become increasingly important in modern organizations and the labor market. Yet, little is known about the role of self-confidence in teamwork. In this paper, we present evidence from a laboratory experiment using a team effort task. Effort and ability are complements and there are synergies between teammates' efforts. We exogenously manipulate subjects' self-confidence about their ability using easy and hard general knowledge quizzes. We find that overconfidence leads to more effort, less free riding, and higher team revenue. This finding is primarily due to a direct effect of overconfidence on own effort provision, while there is no evidence that subjects strategically respond to the teammate's overconfidence.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10683-024-09829-x.
团队合作在现代组织和劳动力市场中变得越来越重要。然而，关于自信在团队合作中的作用，我们知之甚少。在本文中，我们展示了一项使用团队努力任务的实验室实验的证据。努力和能力是互补的，队友的努力之间存在协同效应。我们使用简单和困难的常识测验，对外生性地操纵受试者对自己能力的自信。我们发现过度自信会导致更多的努力、更少的搭便车行为和更高的团队收入。这一发现主要是由于过度自信对自身努力投入的直接影响，而没有证据表明受试者会对队友的过度自信做出策略性反应。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s10683-024-09829-x获取的补充材料。
