Purpose: Although researchers have demonstrated a significant interest in motivation factors of knowledge collaboration, previous studies have seldom explored the dynamic interrelations in virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) over time that involve the iteratively melding of knowledge...

This article analyzes an economic experiment designed to measure the effect of “legal technology” on the economic efficiency of Coasian bargaining. In the experiment, the agreement of many agents (called “landowners”) to transfer their property rights to a single agent (called “the...