excitement of potential gain is disconnected from anxiety about potential consequences, producing groupthink and bubbles. When …

between the members of the same groups. In the real world, individuals are members of groups and want to reward or punish … those groups whose members have been kind or unkind to members of their own. In this paper, we extend Dufwenberg and … Kirchsteiger's model of sequential reciprocity (Games Econ Behav 47(2):268-298, 2004) to groups of individuals and define a new …

State, Nigeria. Methods: To capture the determinants of loan repayment in the study area, a total of 48 microcredit groups … of between 6 to 10 persons. These findings revealed that the groups had a mean 8 years of existence with a mean … suggested that the various agricultural microcredit finance groups should carefully examine the significant determinants of loan …

nonprofit organizations: public schools and parent-teacher groups (PTGs). We conclude that the partnership is changing as a …

premised on the observation that entrepreneurial groups form an interaction arena for the practice of imagining the future and …-as-practice lens, which we enrich with sociological theory on the future (Beckert) and small groups (Fine), we engage in an in …-depth case study of 12 entrepreneurial groups. We show how the content of entrepreneurial visions is configured by four elements …

coalition groups with and without side payments. Overall, coalition groups tend to perform well for the members of the coalition …

to mainstream farming systems. Most of these programs have targeted farm-based groups as entry points. However, there is … sector. Therefore, this study aims at understanding the framework in which farmer groups are formed and how they are ….ti. software. The results show that most of the farmer groups are just entities sampled together simply because most development …

attainment of superior performance. This paper contributes to management education by empirically testing the value of innovative …