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The impact of communication regimes on group rationality : experimental evidence
Meub, Lukas; Proeger, Till - 2014
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...
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I lie? We lie! Why? : experimental evidence on a dishonesty shift in groups
Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - 2016
Unethical behavior such as dishonesty, cheating and corruption occurs frequently in organizations or groups. Recent experimental evidence suggests that there is a stronger inclination to behave immorally in groups than individually. We ask if this is the case, and if so, why. Using a...
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Heterogeneous Predispositions and the Effects of Sorting, Voting, and Communication in Collective Action Dilemmas
Putterman, Louis - 2010
Subjects in collective action experiments like the voluntary contribution mechanism (Davis and Holt, 1993) display varying predispositions ranging from stronger or weaker inclinations to cooperate (including willingness to engage in costly punishment of non-cooperators) to relatively...
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Silence to solidarity: using group dynamics to reduce anti-transgender discrimination in India
Webb, Duncan - 2024
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Group Interactions
Butler, Christopher Kenneth - 2009
Predicting social outcomes on the basis of numerous individual-level interactions is an exhaustive task that only a computer can complete. Even a computer takes exponentially longer to compute all the interactions as the number of actors increases. In addition, the measurement of relevant...
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(Un)trustworthy pledges and cooperation in social dilemmas
Goeschl, Timo; Soldà, Alice - 2023
Pledges feature in international climate cooperation since the 2015 Paris Agreement. We explore how differences in pledgers' trustworthiness affect outcomes in a social dilemma that parallels climate change. In an online experiment, two participants interact with a randomly matched third player...
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(Un)trustworthy pledges and cooperation in social dilemmas
Goeschl, Timo; Soldà, Alice - 2023
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Social movements and the Internet : the sociotechnical constitution of collective action
Dolata, Ulrich - 2017
the internet and social media platforms that have become an integral part of the emergence, organization and mobilization … identification of the technical foundations of collective behavior and action, which show the internet to be not only an enabling but … ausgerichtet. Das ist vor allem anderen dem Internet und Social-Media-Plattformen geschuldet, die zu einem integralen Bestandteil …
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Business communication in the internet age
Boarcăs, Camelia - In: Economics, management and financial markets 12 (2017) 2, pp. 201-213
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Information and communication technologies : one engine of globalization
Popescul, Daniela - In: CES working papers 1 (2009) 2, pp. 20-36
Technological changes are "the main engine of capitalism and evolution" (A. Toffler), "the fundamental driving force in transformation of an economy" (C. Freeman). The paper proposes a theoretical investigation of information and communication technologies evolution and their impact on the...
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