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Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft durch Synergie - mögliche Kooperationen bei der Wasserver- und Entsorgung: Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung der Wasserversorgungsunternehm...
Ludin, Daniela; Rahmeyer, Fritz; Wörner, Daniela - 2001
, 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 in a risky environment: Decisions from experience in a stochastic social dilemma
Artinger, Florian; Fleischhut, Nadine; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2012
Often in cooperative situations, many aspects of the decision-making environment are uncertain. We investigate how cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in risky environments. Drawing on research from risky...
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Motives of sanctioning: Equity and emotions in a public good experiment with punishment
Crosetto, Paolo; Güth, Werner; Mittone, Luigi; Ploner, … - 2012
We study conditional cooperation based on a sequential two-person linear public good game in which a trusting first contributor can be exploited by a second contributor. After playing this game the first contributor is allowed to punish the second contributor. The consequences of sanctioning...
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Does Partner Type Matter in R&D Collaboration for Environmental Innovation?
Pippel, Gunnar - 2013
In the literature on environmental innovations R&D collaborations have been identified as a critical determinant of a firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292380
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Soziale Fähigkeiten in Arbeitsgruppen: Eine empirische Studie zur Ermittlung der Kooperationsfähigkeit
Martin, Albert; Purwin, Jeannette - 2001
Kooperation ist ein unverzichtbarer Leistungsbestandteil. Nur durch kooperatives Verhalten gelingt die Abstimmung der … Arbeitstätigkeiten, ohne Kooperation gibt es keinen Informationsaustausch, keine Unterstützung und keine Hilfe, sondern allenfalls eine … Menge unfruchtbarer Konflikte. Kooperation macht das soziale Leben leichter, sie fördert daneben aber auch die individuelle …
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Dynamical modeling of the demographic Prisoner's Dilemma
Dorofeenko, Viktor; Shorish, Jamsheed - 2002
Epstein (1998) demonstrates that in the demographic Prisoner's Dilemma game it is possible to sustain cooperation in a repeated game played on a finite grid, where agents are spatially distributed and of fixed strategy type ('cooperate' or 'defect'). We introduce a methodology to formalize the...
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Choosing the carrot or the stick? Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations
Sutter, Matthias; Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin G. - 2008
We analyze an experimental public goods game in which group members can endogenously determine whether they want to supplement a standard voluntary contribution mechanism with the possibility of rewarding or punishing other group members. We find a large and positive effect of endogenous...
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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - 2010
We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...
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Global Climate Policy and Corresponding Activities on a City-Level
Sippel, Maike - 2004
Cities are not affected by global climate policy and the Kyoto Protocol – however many of them engage in voluntary activities. This paper analyses how communities in general and especially the city of Hamburg can contribute to global climate protection in their citypartnerships according to...
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Empathie, Verantwortlichkeit, Gemeinwohl: Versuch über die Selbstbehauptungskräfte der Region. Ergebnisse eines Praxisforschungsprojekts zur Vermarktung regionaler Lebensmittel
Ganzert, Christian; Burdick, Bernhard; Scherhorn, Gerhard - 2004
Wie tragen die Akteure in ländlichen Regionen wirksam dazu bei, die Region wirtschaftlich lebendig zu erhalten? Wie motivieren sie sich gegenseitig zu einer Aufgabe, die sowohl im eigenen als auch im gemeinsamen Interesse ist? In einer Fallstudie im Bergischen Land wurde die Bedeutung von...
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