knowledge, and stand ready to help the other workers. In our laboratory experiment, we find that most groups eventually manage to …Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this … knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire …

for this conjecture and we discuss the results of an experiment that confirms that profit sharing is most effective when …

coordination failure when two groups with diverging precedents have to interact. This paper describes an experiment to explore how …

the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …

-world organizations we employ a controlled experiment. Our data provide clear evidence that agents? behavior is not only guided by …

behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …

benchmark is tested in an experiment. Furthermore, we provide the first clean one-shot experimental test of the Lazear and Rosen … (1981) tournament model. In a second experiment, we investigate the effectiveness of corporate value statements to encourage …