RT Journal Article
T1 Team production and gift exchange
A1 Ruiz-Delgado, Marta
A1 Alventosa, Adriana
A1 Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel
A1 Morales-Siles, Antonio José
K1 Economía
K1 Comunicación
K1 Equipos de trabajo
K1 Producción
AB We study the effect of communication in a team production experimental setting where a principal decides,before contributions are made, how the team output will be allocated between himself and the team members.The allocation determines the marginal per capita rate of contributions. Without communication, we observethat high offers by the principal are followed by larger contributions by the team members (gift-exchange).With communication, only positive messages have a significant effect on the team members’ contributions: (i)positive messages increase workers’ contributions in those cases in which they receive the low offer and (ii)positive messages are accompanied of high offers to team members.
PB Elsevier
YR 2026
FD 2026
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/46427
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/46427
LA eng
NO Marta Ruiz-Delgado, Adriana Alventosa, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Antonio J. Morales, Team production and gift exchange, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 122, 2026, 102572, ISSN 2214-8043
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 4 may 2026