Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an … gossip, and that noisy gossip (where information transmission from third parties to trustors can fail) still increases … efficiency, but less so than if information transmission is undisturbed. …

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 …