Personality, organizational culture, and cooperation: evidence from a...

Administrative Science Quarterly;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......organizational tasks (Wagner, 1995: 152). Cooperative behavior is often manifested in members...members are likely to display cooperative behavior is difficult, however, since cooperative behavior can be influenced both by personality...

Endogenous provision and appropriation in the commons.

American Journal of Agricultural Economics;  August 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......requires either inducing a noncooperative behavior by individual members that mimics what cooperative behavior would dictate or inducing cooperative behavior. A number...first-best costless cooperative solution to an extent...costs in determining cooperative outcomes. ...

Higher IQ

Sea Power;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......squadron had achieved this level of cooperative behavior. * They communicate using transponders...can communicate through a kind of cooperative behavior that allows them to maneuver in...said it was the first time such cooperative behavior among the robots had been achieved...

GREENBEARDS HAVE BLUE THROATS IN BREAKTHROUGH STUDY OF EVOLUTION OF...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......breakthrough in our understanding of how cooperative behavior arises from genes," said Barry Sinervo...Cheaters and defectors benefit from the cooperative behavior of others without paying the costs...that share the signal, and promote cooperative behavior towards other greenbeards. ...

Collective Autonomous Mobile Robot Technology Developed.

Korea Times (Seoul, Korea);  June 4, 1999 ;     334 words ......learning and conditional evolution. ``Cooperative behavior is a high level phenomenon observed...team.``Recently the emergence of cooperative behavior in collective autonomous mobile...conditional evolution for the emergence of cooperative behavior,'' said Dr. Sim. He explained ...

Trust and Trustworthiness

Personnel Psychology;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......science: What motivates and sustains cooperative behavior? In his book Trust and Trustworthiness...about the myths and realities of cooperative behavior, which will be of special interest...emphasis on understanding what produces cooperative behavior between persons and ...

Investment signaling in public goods experiments. (response to article by...

Atlantic Economic Journal;  September 1, 1997 ;     510 words ......the difference between cooperative behavior in the provision of...out of kindness and cooperative behavior arising out of confusion...found that half of all cooperative behavior in public goods experiments...

Trust, Norms, and Cooperation: Development and Test of a Simplified Model

Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......norms, and intent to cooperate on cooperative behavior using a simplified model. The findings...organizational crisis mandates widespread cooperative behavior (Webb, 1996). In these instances...process through which trust affects cooperative behavior has not been thoroughly ...

Chapter 12: ADAPT YOUR ECONOMICS

Customer Intimacy;      700+ words ......connection productive. As we've seen in earlier chapters, cooperative behavior at this level can generate a variety of new financial...both parties to the potentially enormous benefits of cooperative behavior. What are those benefits? Consider the huge effort buyers...

Unselfish behavior helps humans and animals, studies reveal.(Originated...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 4, 1996 ;     700+ words ......chimpanzees and other higher animals show that unselfish, cooperative behavior goes way back in evolutionary history. Mother Nature...says, the laws of evolution selected genes that code for cooperative behavior and, over millions of years, hard-wired them in the neurons...

Cooperation evolves via reward strategy. (cooperative behavior among...

Science News;  July 3, 1993 ;     507 words ......genetic strangers. In the past decade, scientists have suggested that a strategy of tit-fortat guided the evolution of cooperative behavior in the animal world. A creature employing this scheme cooperates with a compatriot on a first encounter, then responds...

The Role of Firm Size in Successful Outsourcing: A Study of New Computer...

Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......several determinants of cooperative behavior. One determinant investigated...would more likely embrace cooperative behavior because entering into external...fewer employees, engaged in cooperative behavior because it w

(book review)

The Energy Journal;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......book is about. What determines the cooperative behavior among the oil-producing countries...sufficient in understanding the cooperative behavior of the governments of the oil-producing...multilevel approach in explaining the cooperative behavior of oil-producing states. This is...

COOPERATION KEEPS LIZARDS' BLUE GENES FROM FADING

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 9, 2006 ;     444 words ......Scientists have reported the first direct evidence that cooperative behavior in side-blotched male lizards arises from their genes...counterproductive - but Sinervo explored the genes that underlie cooperative behavior and discovered how they can affect the genetic composition...

Robot Swarm

Mechanical Engineering;  January 1, 2007 ;     287 words ......Information Society Technologies, have developed minirobots that act in a swarm, much like ants. Although these robots' cooperative behavior was inspired by the actions of the tiny ant, their ability to swarm could eventually take them to outer space. By working...