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Counteracting Free‐Riding With Team Morale—An Experimental Study

Author(s) -

He Jun

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

project management journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.454

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1938-9507

pISSN - 8756-9728

DOI - 10.1002/pmj.21272

Subject(s) - free riding , team effectiveness , perspective (graphical) , team composition , empirical research , test (biology) , project team , psychological safety , psychology , business , knowledge management , applied psychology , operations management , engineering , social psychology , computer science , economics , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , microeconomics , biology , incentive

This study focuses on a behavioral perspective to examine the detrimental effects of free‐riding on team performance, and investigates team morale as a key factor that counteracts the tendency of free‐riding among team members. Results of the empirical test imply that enhancing team morale can effectively reduce the scale of free‐riding behavior in project teams; in addition, controlling team size also provides help to constrain the undesired behavior. The two means can be carefully applied to project management during early stages of project development before the commitment of significant resources. Implications for both research and team practices are discussed.

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