voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men … hold more optimistic beliefs about coworkers' cooperativeness than men who lack confidence, and are accordingly … significantly more cooperative, whereas overconfidence, beliefs, and cooperativeness are not correlated in women. …

attitude critical to the formation of cooperation within groups and organizations (Smith, Carroll & Ashford, 1995). Although …Cooperation is essential to long-term group effectiveness. It is difficult to achieve, however, when the group's and an … individual's goals conflict. Under these circumstances, how does cooperation emerge? One means is through trust, which is an …

exchange theory is used for this purpose. This longitudinal study is based on a 3-year collaboration project for innovation …

Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action …. This can impede the joint understanding of what constitutes cooperative behavior, and may thus inject mistrust into …