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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science
Häussler, Carolin - 2016
perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data - the disclosures of author contributions on …
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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456472
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Ode to the sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation
Gneezy, Uri - 2014
The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458432
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Liaisons Dangereuses : Increasing Connectivity, Risk Sharing, and Systemic Risk
Battiston, Stefano - 2009
We characterize the evolution over time of a network of credit relations among financial agents as a system of coupled stochastic processes. Each process describes the dynamics of individual financial robustness, while the coupling results from a network of liabilities among agents. The average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463991
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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative
Deacon, Robert T. - 2010
We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462317
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Starting Small : Endogenous Stakes and Rational Cooperation
Andreoni, James - 2016
types can be exploited to enhance cooperation by structuring the twice-played prisoners' dilemma to "start small," so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456738
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The Cost of Friendship
Gompers, Paul - 2012
This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate what personal characteristics affect people's desire to work together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction enhances or detracts from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460518
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History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
We study the evolution of the social norm of "cooperation" in a dynamic environment. Each agent lives for two periods … completely drives equilibrium play, leading to a social norm of high or low cooperation. In intermediate cases, the impact of … leverage their greater visibility to influence expectations of future agents and overturn social norms of low cooperation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461578
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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy
Antràs, Pol - 2005
question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467591
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Opportunity Counts : Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives
Boning, Brent - 2001
This paper investigates the individual and joint effects of group incentive pay and problem-solving teams on productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34...
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