This paper relates firm size and opportunism by showing that, given certain behavioral dispositions of humans, the size … cooperative regime among its employees that keeps in check opportunism. A model depicts the outstanding role of the entrepreneur … opportunism-related costs are a reason for keeping firms' size small. …

In evolutionary models of indirect reciprocity, reputation mechanisms can stabilize cooperation even in severe … cooperation problems like the prisoner's dilemma. Under certain circumstances, conditionally cooperative strategies, which … lead to a breakdown of this kind of indirectly reciprocal cooperation. Backward induction, however, requires strategies …