What Situation Is This? Shared Frames and Collective Performance

We study agents who distill the complex world around them using cognitive frames. assume that share same frame and analyze how affects their collective performance. In one-shot repeated interactions, causes to be either better or worse off than if they could perceive environment in full detail: it creates a fog of cooperation conflict. is as important agents’ patience determining outcome: for fixed discount factor, when all choose what best play, there remain significant performance differences induced by different A low-performing team conducting site visit observe high-performing will mystified, sometimes observing actions expected being given unexpected reasons expected. Finally, we distinguish between incremental versus radical changes frames, develop model category formation challenges faced leader seeks improve