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Crowding in, Crowding Out, the Janus Face Role of Group Diversity in Collective Action

Moyersoen, Johan; Huysentruyt, Marieke - 2014

Substantial evidence suggests that group diversity can generate a multiplier effect that significantly affects the public good produced in collective action. In this paper, we examine how such a multiplier effect impacts group formation or the matching of diverse agents. Our model shows that...

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Dyads, Triads, and the Theory of Exchange : Between Liberty and Coercion

Podemska-Mikluch, Marta - 2012

Economists commonly use the Edgeworth box to illustrate the ability of exchange to generate gains from trade. In contrast to this framework of dyadic exchange, we explore triadic forms of exchange where margins of coercion are also present. In the presence of triadic exchange, market...

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Technological Determinants of the Group-Size Paradox

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2021

The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...

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Hooliganism and Police Tactics : Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2021

Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an increase in discriminative policing, provided by...

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Reputation and Cooperation in Defence

Hugh-Jones, David - 2011

In experiments, people behave more cooperatively when they are aware of an external threat, while in the field, we observe surprisingly high levels of within - group cooperation in conflict situations such as civil wars. We provide an explanation for these phenomena. We introduce a model in...

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Distributed team collaboration in organizations : emerging tools and practices

Milhauser, Kathy L. (contributor) - 2011

optimize distributed team performance"--Provided by publisher. … environment / Kathy Milhauser -- 5. The effect of cultural dimensions on the development of intra-team trust in global virtual …. A complex systems theory and model of distributed team development / Peter Bond -- 10. Technology stewardship for …