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A Partnership Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons

Schott, Stephan - 2001

"This paper introduces a management regime that would maintain common property rights by allowing resource users to harvest on their own but to share their extraction outcome with a given number of other resource users. The developed partnership approach makes use of the shirkingincentives in...

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The Conditions for Successful Collective Action Regarding Common Pool Resources: Examples and Implications for Global Cooperation

Libecap, Gary D. - 1993

"The purpose of this paper is to summarize some of the bargaining issues involved in collective action to address local common-pool problems and to illustrate them in three empirical cases. The importance of riming or the sequence of coalition building and the heterogeneity of the participant's...

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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002

." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to …

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Communication in a Commons: Cooperation Without External Enforcement

Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 1989

"The experiments reported in this paper provide strong evidence for the power of face-to-face communication in a repeated common-pool resource environment where decisions are made privately. When communication was provided as a 'costless' institution, players successfully used the opportunity...

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Rethinking Local Commons Dilemmas: Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field

Cardenas, Juan Camilo - 2002

"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...

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Institutions for Facilitating Cooperation: Evidence from Economics Experiments on Public Goods, Common-Pool Resources and Team Production Environments

Walker, James M. - 2003

"Over the past 30 years, applied microeconomics has seen an explosion in the use of experimental methods as a tool for observing economic behavior. Economic experiments serve as a complement to field research using, allowing the researcher to create and control key theoretically based rules of...

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Cooperation-based Clustering for Profit-maximizing Organizational Design

Giraud-Carrier, Christophe G.; Seppi, Kevin; Tran, Nghia; … - 2006

This paper shows how the notion of value of cooperation, a measure of the percentage of a firm’s profits due strictly … various organizational structures. The value of cooperation is computed from transactions data by solving a regression problem …Cooperation- based Clustering for Profit- maximizing OrganizationalDesignNghia Tran, Christophe Giraud- Carrier, Kevin …

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Studies in the Dynamics of Economic Systems

Giraud-Carrier, Christophe G.; Seppi, Kevin; Tran, Nghia; … - 2005

’s profits due strictly to the cooperative effects among its products. This ”Value of Cooperation” suggests an important measure … its products. This ” Value of Cooperation”suggests an important measure for both organizational andantitrust applications … independent companies with those itrealizes by fully capitalizing on cooperation between theproducts. More precisely, let peq be …

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Testing Theories of Cooperative Arrangements in Agricultural Markets: Results from Producer Groups in Poland

Banaszak, Ilona - 2007

succeed and others fail? We define success and factors affecting success of cooperation using transaction costs theory and …

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Farmers' strategies in globalization markets: Empirical results from Germany

Inderhees, Philipp; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2006

Today the European agrofood sector is increasingly confronted with the threatsas well as the opportunities of liberalizing markets. Therefore, competitiveness on globalmarkets is becoming of paramount importance for European farmers. The challenges ofglobal markets are accompanied by a growing...

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