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"Treten Männer und Frauen als Teams im Wettbewerb an, lösen sich die Geschlechterunterschiede, die sich individuell als unterschiedliche Neigung oder Abneigung zu Wettbewerbssituationen feststellen ließen, auf. Allerdings reduziert sich auch die Gesamtqualität derjenigen, die am Wettbewerb teilnehmen. Vor allem leistungsstarke Männer wollen sich nicht als Teil eines Teams einem Wettbewerb stellen, es sei denn, ihnen wird ein gleichstarker Partner zugesichert." (Autorenreferat)
"When having to decide whether to enter an individual tournament or to stay out, men are more likely than women to go for the competitive option. This however is not the case when the competition is team-based. In team-based competitions, men are more prone to shy away from competition as they do not want to let a less competent team mate take advantage of them." (author's abstract)"Recent results in experimental and personnel economics indicate that women do not
like competitive environments as much as men. This article presents an experimental
design giving participants the opportunity to enter a tournament as part of a
team rather than alone. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual
tournament is found in line with the literature, no gender gap is found in
entry in the team tournament. Women do not enter the tournament significantly
more often when it is team-based but men enter significantly less when they are
part of a team rather than alone. The main reason for men’s disaffection for the
team competition appears to be linked to the uncertainty on their teammate’s ability.
More precisely, high-performing men fear to be the victims of the free-riding
behaviour of their teammate." (author's abstract)"Recent experimental results indicate that women do not like competitive environments as much as men do. Another literature is interested in the effect of social identity on economic behaviors. This paper investigates in the lab the impact of social identity on men and women's willingness to compete both individually and as part of a team. To this aim, participants from the Identity sessions had to go through group identity building activities in the lab while participants from the Benchmark sessions did not. The main result is that men are only willing to enter a team competition with a teammate of unknown ability if they share a common group identity with him or her. This change of behavior seems to be caused by high-performing men who are less reluctant to be matched with a possibly less able participant when he or she belongs to his group. On the other hand, group identity does not seem to induce women to take actions more in the interest of the group they belong to." (author's abstract)