different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to … as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report …

students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if ….e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative …

We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and …. The application of sanctions activates a virtuous emotional circle that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused … punished, and increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of contribution that becomes …

We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree of cooperation in firms using a … intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …