As part of the Seminar of Economics and Management (SEAM), Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pull will present her study 'There is no "I" in team, but there is a "ME" in it: how team and task familiarity affect team coordination under performance pressure' on 03.11.25, which is joint work with Dr. Julian Nüßle and Prof. Dr. Philip Yang.
Kerstin Pull holds the Professorship of Human Resources and Organisation in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
Here is the abstract of the study:
'We analyse how team and task familiarity affect team coordination and how these effects are moderated by performance pressure. We conduct two complementary studies. Study 1 analyses 12,103 team-in-game observations of the National Basketball Association using fixed-effects regressions. Study 2 extends this analysis through a controlled experiment, manipulating team familiarity, task familiarity, and performance pressure to establish causal effects. We find that both team and task familiarity enhance team coordination. The moderation effects are, however, asymmetric: The positive link of team familiarity on team coordination is strengthened, but the link between task familiarity and team coordination is weakened when performance pressure is high. Besides constructively replicating the results of study 1 in a different setting and causally establishing the links, study 2 also allows us to explore the underlying mechanisms by which performance pressure affects the links between team and task familiarity on the one hand and team coordination on the other.'
The presentation will take place from 13:00-14:00 in room Q4.245. Interested researchers are kindly invited to attend.
