Leadership Choice in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks - Lab-in-the-field Evidence

Last registered on December 19, 2022

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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Leadership Choice in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks - Lab-in-the-field Evidence
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0003188
Initial registration date
July 31, 2018

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
August 02, 2018, 1:47 AM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Last updated
December 19, 2022, 4:05 AM EST

Last updated is the most recent time when changes to the trial's registration were published.

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
Tilburg University

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
LMU Munich
PI Affiliation
LMU Munich
PI Affiliation
LMU Munich
PI Affiliation
LMU Munich

Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2018-08-06
End date
2023-06-30
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
In this study, we investigate the effect of leadership choice on team performance in non-routine, analytical team tasks. We use a lab-in-the-field setup in which groups of teams work on a non-routine analytical team task to analyze when leadership emerges. The task makes teams
face complex and novel problems, it is analytical and cognitively demanding as teams need to collect and recombine information which requires to think outside the box to succeed, and it is interactive as team members have to collaborate, discuss possible actions, and develop ideas jointly with their team members.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Englmaier, Florian et al. 2022. "Leadership Choice in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks - Lab-in-the-field Evidence." AEA RCT Registry. December 19. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.3188-3.6
Former Citation
Englmaier, Florian et al. 2022. "Leadership Choice in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks - Lab-in-the-field Evidence." AEA RCT Registry. December 19. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3188/history/165668
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
We implement three treatments, one control condition, one where leadership can be formed endogenously and one where we assign leadership exogenously to a team mebmer.
Intervention Start Date
2018-08-06
Intervention End Date
2023-06-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Time until completion, completion rate at 60 minutes
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Number of hints taken, timing at which hints are taken, team member geo distance, team conversation contents, questionnaire answers
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We conduct the experiment with our partner in a setting that resembles non-routine and analytical team tasks. Subjects are from the subject pool of the local lab. Treatments are randomized by day over the sampling period to avoid spillover between observations that we record at similar points in time. We record completion time, answers to questionnaire questions, several background characteristics and variables related to the task. Additionally, we record geo distances of players, as well as record their conversations (pending technical feasibility, which we evaluate in the week of July 30, before the start of collecting data).
Experimental Design Details
We conduct our experiment with ExitTheRoom (ETR), a firm that offers room escape games to customers in several European countries. We implement the treatments at their Munich location with subjects from the subject pool of the local economic experiments laboratory. Treatments are randomized for each day to avoid spillover of treatment information across participants.

Subjects come to the laboratory, where they will be provided with several questionnaires: * one measuring the willingness to pay for doing the task at ETR * one on loss aversion * one on creativity (and they have to complete an additional creativity task) * one on competitiveness * one on risk * Big 5 * socioeconomic background characteristics.

After completing these questionnaires, subjects are walked over to ETR, where they will be randomly allocated to rooms. They receive an introduction and introduce themselves to their members. At the end of the introduction, we'll implement the treatment variations described above. Subjects then perform the task. Afterwards, they fill in several surveys on their behavior and perception of the task.

Additionally, and if technically feasible, subjects will wear devices that allow us to record their geographic position as well as conversations.
Randomization Method
Randomization by computer in office
Randomization Unit
Randomization was done by days
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
99 days
Sample size: planned number of observations
270-300 observations, corresponding to 810 to 900 subjects.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
90-100 observations per treatment arm.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
University of Munich, Department of Economics, Ethics Commission
IRB Approval Date
2016-02-03
IRB Approval Number
N/A

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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