We present an agent-based model to test two competing hypotheses in the theory of self-enforcing agreement. In … exit the team freely. The other is imposing a high exit cost to restrict members from leaving the team. The arguments … team members (e.g., their laziness, work ability and patience to future well-being) into consideration, which allows us to …

perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data – the disclosures of author contributions on …

affiliations are unknown. We find no differences in cooperation across groups that are able to punish free-riding behavior. Thus …

proposed: the organizational model of interdependent self-governing team-based cooperatives …

In this paper we show experimentally that conditional cooperation, a phenomenon described in the private provision of … determines if they overcome a rival group. This environment allows us to identify new determinants of conditional cooperation. We … observe conditional cooperation in successful groups and in groups where members contribute more than rivals (even if they …