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We analyze the relationship between performance, team diversity and size. We first propose a model with knowledge spillovers in production, which predicts that the effect of a diverse team member – relative to the impact of a non-diverse team member – increases with team size. We experimentally test the model by randomly assigning students to solve knowledge questions in teams of different sizes, with or without a person with a diverse knowledge set. In line with the model, we find that the benefit of having a diverse rather than a same-skill colleague is greater in larger relative to small teams. These results have implications for how organizations can design their teams to maximize knowledge flows and performance.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.