In this paper, we study the issue of free-riding in collaborative learning. Free-riding occurs when a part of the students lean on the efforts of the rest of their team and do not contribute much to the team work. It impacts negatively on performances of the whole team [1]. We present an experiment of collaborative diagram drawing (through a synchronous collaborative drawing tool, called Shared...

Abstract When shareholders of a target firm expect value improving takeover to be successful, they are individually better off not tendering their shares the buyer and potentially fails. Squeeze-out procedures can overcome this free-riding dilemma by allowing enforce payout minority seize complete control firm. However, it is often argued that shareholder litigation restores dilemma. Applying s...

Abstract We examine free riding for entry deterrence in license auctions with heterogeneous incumbents. establish the monotonicity of randomized preemptive bidding equilibria: an incumbent a higher entry-loss rate has greater free-riding incentive, choosing lower deterring probability. then identify conditions existence series fully or partially participating equilibria such that two more incum...

In February 1995 Continental Airlines introduced an incentive scheme that promised monthly bonuses to all 35,000 hourly employees if the company achieved a firm-wide performance goal. Conventional wisdom suggests that free riding will render such schemes ineffective. We present evidence indicating that the incentive scheme raised employee performance despite the apparent threat of free riding. ...

The paper designs a forwarding Free-Riding-based location management scheme for wireless sensor networks, combining the features of the multi-points routing and the gossip-based broadcast to design the mobile data transmission methods of the objects so that the communication cost can be reduced. The mathematical model to the random Petri network is developed to analyze the behavior of the locat...

This paper studies an incentive rationale for the use of group lending as a method of financing liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs. The joint liability feature associated with group lending lowers the liquidity risk of default but creates a free-riding problem. In the static setting, the free-riding problem dominates the liquidity risk effect under a plausible condition, thus making group lend...

We propose an economic theory of knowledge sharing. The theory is grounded on game theory and experimental economics. This gives us a framework for analyzing knowledge sharing in different environments. The theory provides testable propositions about knowledge sharing. We used actual transaction data from a global knowledge management system to empirically test our hypotheses about free riding ...