Kooperation stellt einen wichtigen Faktor beim Erreichen ökonomischer Ziele dar. Dient Kooperation den eigenen Interessen, lässt dies eine relativ triviale Erklärung kooperativer Handlungsweisen anhand von Eigennutz zu. Gilt dies jedoch nicht, ist eine genauere Analyse kooperativer...

Building on the results of a participant observation in a Chinese IT-sector company located in the northern part of China, this paper aims to clarify the nature of deception in markets. Contrary to the position of information economics and game theoretical approaches to trust, the paper argues...

Starting from the assumption that decision situations in economic contexts are characterized by fundamental uncertainty, the paper argues that the decision-making of intentionally rational actors is anchored in fictions. “Fictionality” in economic action is the inhabitation in the mind of an...