Yufei Zhong

Survival of the Flattest: Teams with Low (But Not High) Status Differentiation Turn Failure into Success by Adding High-Status Members

Most prior research on teams’ responses to failure treats teams as closed systems. However, after failures, teams may seek to improve performance by bringing in new members. Adopting a teams-as-open-systems perspective, we test which teams are more willing to add high-status memb...