We use large-scale survey data of German speaking villages from the 1930's to investigate drivers of cooperation … stronger community-level social relationships are also less likely to segment their reference group for the cooperation norm to … smaller social units; (3) cooperation norms make other norms more likely. …

Studies analyzing the importance of intra- and inter-regional cooperation for regional innovation performance are … mainly of qualitative nature and focus strongly on the positive effects that high levels of cooperation can yield. For the …-empirical analysis taking into account the possibility of negative effects related to regional lock-in, lock-out, and cooperation …

We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree of cooperation in firms using a … intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …