The paper addresses the effects of social relations on cooperation (or collusion) in organizations and communities … of the same community or by encouraging social interaction between employees--is shown to facilitate cooperation in … production: (a) because of available "Social Capital," the slack of net expected gains from cooperation in the social relations …

The paper characterizes the effects of social relations on agents' ability to sustain cooperation (or collusion) within … out to facilitate cooperation in the workplace for the following reasons: (i) there may be available "Social Capital," a … slack of net expected gains from cooperation in the social relations that can be used to discipline cooperation in …

We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments … find that cooperation is highest of all in twoperson groups. The findings in the high MPCR condition are consistent with … those from n-person prisoner's dilemma and oligopoly experiments that suggest it is more difficult to sustain cooperation in …

interaction impacts cooperation within groups and surplus distribution. We developed and tested experimentally a Surplus … Allocation Game where cooperation of four agents is needed to produce surplus, but only two have the power to allocate it among … distributors and receivers. While behavior at the group level is diverse for surplus allocation and amount of cooperation …