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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict

Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Under what conditions does intergroup contact lead to conflict? We provide a novel answer to this question by … highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one … cooperation within a group, we show theoretically that interactions of individuals from a punishment-based culture with those from …

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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property : Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...

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Innocents Abroad : The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms

Perkins, Susan - 2008

insiders can divert resources between firms they control, including joint ventures, to enrich themselves; and highlight …

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Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan

Berman, Eli - 2014

interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of …

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Meet the Oligarchs : Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

Tella, Rafael Di - 2016

We study the impact of two dimensions of trust, namely trust in business elites and trust in government, on policy preferences. Using a randomized online survey, we find that our two treatments are effective in changing trust in Major Companies and in Courts/Government. In contrast to previous...

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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science

Häussler, Carolin - 2016

Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...

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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 …

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How Modern Dictators Survive : An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism

Guriev, Sergei - 2015

We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but because they convince the public--rightly or wrongly--that they are competent. Citizens do not observe the dictator's type but infer it from signals inherent in their living...

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Markets for Scientific Attribution

Gans, Joshua - 2014

Formal attribution provides a means of recognizing scientific contributions as well as allocating scientific credit. This paper examines the processes by which attribution arises and its interaction with market assessments of the relative contributions of members of scientific teams and...

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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 …

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