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ToolsCroson, Rachel, Fatas, Enrique, Neugebauer, Tibor and Morales, Antonio J. (2015) Excludability: A laboratory study on forced ranking in team production. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 114. 13–26.
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Abstract
Exclusion has long been employed as a common disciplinary measure against defectors, both at work and in social life. In this paper, we study the effect of excludability - exclusion of the lowest contributor - on contributions in three different team production settings. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that excludability increases contributions. Excludability is particularly effective in production settings where the average or maximum effort determines team production. In these settings, we observe almost immediate convergence to full contribution. In settings where the minimum effort determines team production, excludability leads to a large increase in contributions only if the value of the excluded individual's contribution to the public good is redistributed among the included individuals.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | best-shot mechanism,competition,cooperation,exclusion,linear public goods games,weakest-link mechanism,organizational behavior and human resource management,economics and econometrics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1407 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2015 21:56 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 00:41 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/53545 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.03.005 |
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