Groups, companies, and organizations identify themselves via symbols. Symbols have the potential to create group identity and at the same time create group boundaries, thus allowing for achieving the benefits of cooperation by ingroup members. We use a laboratory experiment to study the role of...

We develop and test experimentally the argument that gender/family and/or professional identities, activated through priming, may influence preference for competition. We focus on female professionals for whom these identities may conflict and male professionals for whom they may be reinforcing....

The hold-up problem has played a central role in the study of firm boundaries, which originated with the pathbreaking essay by Coase (1937). This paper studies a previously unexplored mechanism by which integration between two parties could resolve the hold-up problem. Based on Tajfel and...