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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies
Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008
Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the …-established approaches for the analysis of power in non-hierarchical organizations such as the Banzhaf measure; and thus they are all based …
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Social Capital, Institutions and Trust
Nooteboom, Bart - 2006
This paper analyzes the relations between social capital, institutions and trust. These concepts are full of ambiguity and confusion. This paper attempts to dissolve some of the confusion, by distinguishing trust and control, and analyzing institutional and relational conditions of trust. It...
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Chapter Twenty-Three. Welfarism, Individual Rights, and Procedural Fairness
Kotaro, Suzumura - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 605-685). 2011
Ever since Sen crystallized the logical conflict between the welfaristic value of the Pareto principle and the nonwelfaristic value of individual libertarian rights into what he christened the impossibility of a Paretian liberal , there have been many attempts in social choice theory to...
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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; Willrodt, Jana - 2020
, either due to bad luck (discrimination), low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Higher fairness perceptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208323
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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; Willrodt, Jana - 2020
, either due to bad luck (discrimination), low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Higher fairness perceptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210412
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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco; Trieu, Chi; … - 2022
performance is low, either due to discrimination, low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Affirmative action favoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482644
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Communication, commitment, and deception in social dilemmas : experimental evidence
Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco; Bigoni, Maria - 2011
Social norms of cooperation are studied under several forms of communication. In an experiment, strangers could make public statements before playing a prisoner's dilemma. The interaction was repeated indefinitely, which generated multiple equilibria. Communication could be used as a tool to...
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Monitoring institutions in indefinitely repeated games
Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2015
Does monitoring past conduct facilitate intertemporal cooperation? We designed an experiment characterized by strategic uncertainty and multiple equilibria where coordinating on the efficient outcome is a challenge. Participants, interacting anonymously in a group, could pay a cost either to...
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Sequential Commitment Games
Arieli, Itai; Babichenko, Yakov; Tennenholtz, Moshe - 2015
We consider extensive-form games in which players have the option to commit to actions before the game is played. We focus on commitment procedures where players make voluntary irreversible commitments in a prescribed order over the decision nodes. We study whether such commitment procedures may...
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Cooperation and Harmony in Finite Games
Zizzo, Daniel John - 2005
Game harmony is a generic game property that describes how harmonious (non-conflictual) or disharmonious (conflictual) the interests of players are, as embodied in the payoffs. It can be used to predict the relative degree of cooperation in games of different harmony. For a large enough increase...
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