Strategic vs. Non-Strategic Motivations of Sanctioning

Revisiting strategic versus non-strategic cooperation

We propose a novel experimental method that disentangles strategicallyand non-strategicallymotivated behavior. We apply it to an indefinitely-repeated prisoner’s dilemma game to observe simultaneously how the same individual behaves in situations with future interaction and in situations with no future interaction, while controlling for expectations. This method allows us to determine the exten...

Reasoning in Strategic and Non-Strategic Interactions

Strategic environmental assessment in China: motivations, politics, and effectiveness.

This paper examines how strategic environmental assessment has been practiced at the national level in China through 2005 and why it has been practiced in the manner observed. Based on literature reviews and interviews carried out in 2005 and 2006, we find that bureaucratic politics between environmental and nonenvironmental ministries has limited the legislation and implementation of strategic...

Message Management Systems: Concepts, Motivations, and Strategic Effects

This paper motivates the need for system-level message management software. It begins by considering information flows in the workplace as a source of potential gains in efficiency. We next investigate work-flow automation and electronic data interchange (EDI) as indicative of current technologies applied to work processes and message management Having described current technology and our visio...

Non-Fully Strategic Information Transmission

Building on Crawford and Sobel’s (1982) general communication model, this paper introduces the possibility that players are non-strategic. The sender may be honest and have a preference for speaking truthfully. The receiver may be naive and erroneously believe that the sender is truthful. In contrast to the predictions of the fully-strategic model, we show that there is an equilibrium where com...