Routines and incentives in group tasks *

Garapin, Alexis; Hollard, Michel

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“…Moreover, we contribute to the specific literature on the Target-The-Two game and routinization, which is extensively discussed in Section 2 , by implementing the puzzle version of the Target-The-Two game so as to isolate learning and routinization that are not related to coordination issues but rather to the cognitive individual process. In this regard, our study departs from existing work in the literature (e.g., Egidi 1996 , Egidi and Narduzzo 1997 , Garapin and Hollard 1999 , and Wollersheim and Heimeriks 2016 , with the exception of Egidi 2016 ).…”

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Target-the-Two: a lab-in-the-field experiment on routinization

2022

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The paper investigates the cognitive determinants of routinization and creativity by means of a lab-in-the-field experiment run at the 20th edition of a mass gathering festival in Italy (“La Notte della Taranta”). Subjects play repeatedly the puzzle version of the Target-The-Two game (32 hands). In hands 1-16, the strategy that is optimal given the card distribution is always the same and it is the easiest to be discovered. Conversely, in hands 17-32, subjects are exposed to games where the optimal contextual strategy may differ from the one with which they have been made familiar. We investigate whether and how, in hands 17-32, subjects remain routinized on the familiar strategy, or creatively choose a different one. We define as “experts” those subjects who played the optimal contextual strategy in the overwhelming majority of hands 1-16. In hands 17-32, we find several subjects playing the familiar strategy even when it is not the optimal one, regardless of whether they are experts or not. This shows that routinization is deep-rooted in the cognitive individual process. Furthermore, routinization pays off only for inexpert subjects: creative inexpert subjects are slower and they fail to find the optimal contextual strategy in several hands. Among expert subjects instead, creative subjects, although still slower, need less moves than routinized ones to find the optimal contextual strategy.

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Target-the-Two: a lab-in-the-field experiment on routinization

2022

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“…Such strong increasing reliability was not observed in the low dynamic capability condition, where the three-quartile range of moves per hand required only slightly decreased. These findings indicate that, in contrast to groups in the low dynamic capability condition, groups in the high dynamic capability condition displayed an increasing efficiency of coordination (Garapin and Hollard 1999).…”

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“…A second characteristic quality of dynamic capabilities is an improved capacity to efficiently coordinate action over time. In contrast to low dynamic capability groups, high dynamic capability groups increase their capacity to produce an acceptable result during the task (Cohen and Bacdayan 1994;Garapin and Hollard 1999). This finding seems to relate to what is referred to as the "coordination function" managers perform (Barnard 1938;Richardson 1960); through coordination assets can be more or less optimally orchestrated following environmental change (e.g., Burgelman 1994).…”

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“…First, our findings provide support for the notion that dynamic capabilities pertain to the use of resources (Amit and Schoemaker 1993;Makadok 2001). In our study, groups in the high dynamic capability condition make more efficient use of resources-i.e., they require fewer moves to solve the hands they play than groups in the low dynamic capability condition (Garapin and Hollard 1999). Also referred to as the "capabilitybuilding mechanism" (Makadok 2001), the use of resources is a key determinant of firm heterogeneity and growth (Penrose 1959).…”

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“…The average number of moves represents the degree to which groups, in playing the card game, made efficient use of resources (Garapin and Hollard 1999). Groups in the high dynamic capability condition (M = 354.00, SD = 20.18) required fewer moves on average than groups in the low dynamic capability condition (M = 376.33, SD = 21.42), t(40) = 3.48, p < .01.…”

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Routines and incentives in group tasks *

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

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