shown for face-toface decision making, which has ceased to be the prevalent form of communication in many IT …-based organizations. To test the robustness of higher group rationality under conditions of virtual communication, we conduct a social … learning experiment. We find that virtual communication leads to a substantial deterioration of group rationality for a …

-known commitment problem by introducing communication. Allowing the upstream firm to chat privately with each downstream firm reduces … total offered quantity from near the Cournot level (observed in the absence of communication) halfway toward the monopoly … bargaining advantage from open communication that all of the gains from monopolizing the market accrue to them. A simple …

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

Communication has been regarded as one of the most effective devices in promoting team cooperation. But asymmetric … communication sometimes breeds collusion and is detrimental to team efficiency. Here, we present experimental evidence showing that … excluding one member from team communication hurts team cooperation: the communicating partners collude in profit allocation …