Rational Behavior in Groups: The Free-Riding Tendency<sup />

Albanese, Robert; Fleet, David D. Van

doi:10.5465/amr.1985.4278118

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“…Team member contributions, often referred to as workload sharing, have been linked to a number of team outcomes including performance, satisfaction, and social cohesion (Campion et al, 1993; Campion, Papper, & Medsker, 1996; Barrick, Stewart, Neubert, & Mount, 1998; Erez, Lepine, & Elms, 2002). Balancing team members’ work contributions may help prevent many of the problems associated with free‐riding or social loafing (Latané, Williams, & Harkins, 1979; Albanese & Van Fleet, 1985). For projects that involve relatively simple activities, free‐riders effectively reduce the amount of time and human resources (i.e., manpower) available to the team.…”

Section: Linking Collaborative Behaviors To Team Performance In 3d Cvesmentioning

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3D Collaborative Virtual Environments: Exploring the Link between Collaborative Behaviors and Team Performance

2011

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Increasingly, organizational work is conducted by virtual teams interacting across boundaries of space and time. Despite advances in collaborative technologies, members of virtual teams often find the experience challenging and a far cry from physically "being there." In response, immersive and interactive three-dimensional collaborative virtual environments (3D CVEs) are emerging and purported to address the shortcoming of earlier technologies. How teams will interact and ultimately perform in a 3D environment remains to be seen. In this study, drawing from group and communication theories, we explore the link between collaborative behaviors and the performance of virtual teams working in a 3D CVE. We report on the results of a controlled experiment consisting of 39 virtual teams of 91 individuals. Through cluster analysis, we identify distinct patterns of collaborative behaviors associated with differential levels of performance. Our findings provide a deeper understanding of how the unique spatial and visual characteristics of 3D CVEs may transform virtual work.

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Section: Linking Collaborative Behaviors To Team Performance In 3d Cvesmentioning

confidence: 99%

3D Collaborative Virtual Environments: Exploring the Link between Collaborative Behaviors and Team Performance

2011

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“…The latter then feel tremendous scrutiny and anxiety and become less willing to look for efficiency advantages through alignment because such efficiencies also benefit the former actors (Ames, ). Finally, a joint reward system may encourage free‐riding across organizational units (Albanese and Van Fleet, ), whereby particular units exploit the similarity (i.e., alignment) in activities to contribute less to cross‐functional responsibilities while also assuming that they will receive rewards similar to those granted to their colleagues in other, harder working units (Lee and Ahn, ). Ultimately, such free‐riding can create a downward motivational spiral across the organization (Wagner, ), such that the performance outcomes derived from alignment are subdued.…”

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An investigation of the performance consequences of alignment and adaptability: contingency effects of decision autonomy and shared responsibility

2011

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This research investigates the moderating role of organizations' structural context on the performance outcomes of the firm's alignment and adaptability pursuits. It focuses in particular on the role of decision autonomy and shared responsibility, and posits that these structural features exert opposing influences on the effect of alignment and adaptability on performance. Using a sample of more than 200 Canadian-based firms, this study finds that at higher levels of decision autonomy, the positive relationship between alignment and performance becomes weaker, and the positive relationship between adaptability and performance becomes stronger. Furthermore, at higher levels of shared responsibility, the positive relationship between adaptability and performance strengthens. Thus, the study offers structure-based explanations for the challenge that organizations face when they attempt to reap the benefits of alignment and adaptability simultaneously.R&D Management 42, 1, 2012.

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“…Second, the formal information systems that firms implement to increase information quality, such as internal controls, may not produce the unique, “soft” information required for innovation and may exacerbate the “quiet life” agency problem whereby formal controls decrease managers’ need to make discretionary decisions (Li, Shu, Tang, & Zheng, 2019; Stein, 2002). Third, a more widespread sharing of information can negatively affect innovation by increasing the likelihood of premature consensus and groupthink or by making it easier for employees to freeride on the ideas of others (Albanese & Van Fleet, 1985; Esser, 1998; Janis, 1971; Li & Sandino, 2018).…”

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Internal information quality and patent‐related innovation

Huang

Lao

McPhee

2020

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This study investigates how the quality of information available within a firm affects patent-related innovative activities. Relying on recent theoretical and empirical research, we use externally observable information attributes to proxy for the quality of internal information. Our empirical results indicate that firms with higher internal information quality generate more patents and patent citations.Cross-sectional analyses show that this positive effect is greater when firms are susceptible to greater internal information frictions due to firm decentralization, short management team tenure, and long product development cycles. We also document that firms experience an increase in patents and patent citations following an improvement of internal information quality proxied by internal control weakness remediation. Overall, our results suggest that the positive relation between internal information quality and task performance extends to patent-related innovation, a non-routine type of task that may rely on information originating from sources other than firms' formal internal information systems. K E Y W O R D S coordination, internal information quality, patent-related innovation, uncertainty J E L C O D E S M41, D8, O32

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Rational Behavior in Groups: The Free-Riding Tendency

Cited by 289 publications

References 29 publications

3D Collaborative Virtual Environments: Exploring the Link between Collaborative Behaviors and Team Performance

3D Collaborative Virtual Environments: Exploring the Link between Collaborative Behaviors and Team Performance

An investigation of the performance consequences of alignment and adaptability: contingency effects of decision autonomy and shared responsibility

Internal information quality and patent‐related innovation

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