The performance of groups has been thoroughly investigated in experimental economics, showing that groups are overall more rational deciders than individuals. However, superior group performance in economic experiments has primarily been shown for face-toface decision making, which has ceased to...

The study of GR research (I. Mergel, 2017 [1]) made it possible to determine the peculiarities of presence, communication and visual representation of power in social networks. Conclusions were made about the emerging trends of aestheticization, new rigor, expressed in the requirements for the...

This chapter tells the story of the famous takeover decision in Paramount Communications v. QVC Network. The battle over Paramount lends support to the view that non-pecuniary motivations can sometimes explain battles for corporate control and management behavior better than pecuniary...

In this paper we model the formation of directed communication networks. A directed communication network is represented by a directed graph. Firstly, we study an allocation rule satisfying two appealing properties, component efficiency and directed fairness. We show that such an allocation rule...

Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into re-usable process modules. These process modules can subsequently be distributed on the Internet over a variety of many different actors, each with their own...

This paper studies the causal impact of social ties and network structure on helping behavior in organizations. We introduce and experimentally study a game called the 'helping game,' where individuals unilaterally decide whether to incur a cost to help other team members when helping is a...

Web 2.0 and the social networks have changed how organizations interact with their publics. They enable organizations to engage in symmetric dialogic communications with individuals. Various organizations are increasingly using different social media to enhance their visibility and relationships...

Although trust is widely acknowledged as critical in virtual settings, little is known regarding the antecedents and consequences of trust in leaders of virtual groups. Adopting a multi-level perspective, we propose the leadership’s communication behavior and the broader cultural context in...