voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men … hold more optimistic beliefs about coworkers' cooperativeness than men who lack confidence, and are accordingly … significantly more cooperative, whereas overconfidence, beliefs, and cooperativeness are not correlated in women. …

attitude critical to the formation of cooperation within groups and organizations (Smith, Carroll & Ashford, 1995). Although …Cooperation is essential to long-term group effectiveness. It is difficult to achieve, however, when the group's and an … individual's goals conflict. Under these circumstances, how does cooperation emerge? One means is through trust, which is an …

We present an agent-based model to test two competing hypotheses in the theory of self-enforcing agreement. In … cooperative teams (such as agricultural cooperatives), self-enforcing agreement plays a critical role in guaranteeing members … exit the team freely. The other is imposing a high exit cost to restrict members from leaving the team. The arguments …

.This organizational model is of large cooperative companies that are networks of small cooperative self-governing teams, where these teams … are no large cooperatives.Cooperatives’ current business models and some new cooperative business models are described … proposed: the organizational model of interdependent self-governing team-based cooperatives …

Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action …. This can impede the joint understanding of what constitutes cooperative behavior, and may thus inject mistrust into …

Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action …. This can impede the joint understanding of what constitutes cooperative behavior, and may thus inject mistrust into …

easy to manage instrument for diagnosing cooperation deficits in work groups. For this purpose the construct "ability to … groups. The results give reasons to be optimistic about the further elaboration of the theory and measurement of the ability …Kooperation ist ein unverzichtbarer Leistungsbestandteil. Nur durch kooperatives Verhalten gelingt die Abstimmung der …