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assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates … countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices …. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …
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We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes anti-social, harming cooperative …
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hence competitive pressure is higher. By contrast, levels of cooperation are very similar across areas. This indicates that … scarcity does not hamper cooperation, at least as long as a sub-survival level has not been reached. Our data further reveal a …
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intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree of cooperation in firms using a … importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the …
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Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this...
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We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes antisocial, harming cooperative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274651
Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental issue in all behavioural … sciences. In this article we review the experimental evidence on how people solve cooperation problems. Existing studies show … without doubt that direct and indirect reciprocity are important determinants of successful cooperation. We also discuss the …
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, um mehr Effizienz und Effektivität im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Wasserwirtschaft zu erreichen. Die Kooperation erfolgt … Organisationsformen. Eine Kooperation kann grundsätzlich zwischen zwei oder mehreren Wasserversorgungsunternehmen oder … innerhalb der Wasserversorgung und Abwasserentsorgung durch Kooperation Synergieeffekte realisiert werden können. Basierend auf …
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cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in … lotteries with equivalent levels of risk. Cooperation rates in games vary with different levels of risk across decision … stochastic social dilemmas than in the lotteries. The findings highlight how an uncertain environment shapes cooperation and call …
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trust in EU institutions and programmes should be strengthened, and the cooperation between the non-profit organisation …
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