@TechReport{dp-672,
  author   = {Grözinger, Nicola and Irlenbusch, Bernd and Laske, Katharina and Schröder, Marina},
  astring  = {Nicola Grözinger and Bernd Irlenbusch and Katharina Laske and Marina Schröder},
  title    = {Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study},
  month    = {May},
  year     = {2020},
  pages    = {24},
  size     = {508},
  number   = {672},
  language = {en},
  keywords = {Creativity, Communication, Laboratory Experiment, Real-effort, Complex Problem Solving, Innovation},
  jelclass = {C91, J30, M52, O30},
  abstract = {In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no significant difference between performances of groups that communicate via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams can be mitigated by real-time video conference communication.}
}