together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … collaboration in a dynamic network setting. We develop an experiment in which coordination problems are mainly due to finding … collaborate. The results show that as costs of forming links increase, groups succeed less often in solving the coordination …

alliance as a whole, it is important to find coordination mechanisms that achieve this alignment and are simple …-to-implement. In this paper, we examine two simple coordination mechanisms for a horizontal alliance characterized by the following … other alliance member; and (iii) the coordination rules followed by the alliance determine which firms from a large pool of …