We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative … can be mitigated by real-time video conference communication. …

of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …