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Explaining terrorist group cooperation and competition
Phillips, Brian J. - 2012
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Competitive work environments and social preferences : field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837167
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Competitive work environments and social preferences : field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); Seki, Erika (contributor) - 2005
different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to … a large extent. -- field experiment ; cooperation ; social disapproval ; social preference ; competition ; Japan …
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Inequality, social cooperation and local collective action
Justino, Patricia - 2015
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Media and social capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021
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Unsichere Zukünfte und die Entstehung von Kooperation : wie Erwartungen kollektives Handeln ermöglichen
Ergen, Timur; Seeliger, Martin - 2018
The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than existing sociological theories. Two case studies - one on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898147
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When fairness is not enough : the disproportionate contributions of the poor in a collective action problem
Malthouse, Eugene; Pilgrim, Charlie; Hills, Thomas; … - 2023
Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations people face a dilemma about making individually costly but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285827
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Media and social capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670370
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On the political and social consequences of economic inequality : civic engagement in Colombia
Justino, Patricia; Arjona, Ana; Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo - 2019
This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this impact persists over time, and what mechanisms may shape the relationship between inequality and civic engagement. The results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122665
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Cooperation in small groups : the effect of group size
Nosenzo, Daniele; Quercia, Simone; Sefton, Martin - 2013 - Revised version of 2012-17, This version: 29 July 2013
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 …
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