While cooperative buyer-supplier relations are an important source of sustainable competitive advantage, non-cooperative behavior persists widely. This paper tests a model incorporating non-cooperative behavior within a context of formal commitment, using data from the US auto industry. This ‘close, but adversarial’ model appears to be reasonably well supported by the data, suggesting that even...

The predictions of classical game theory for one-shot and finitely repeated play of many 2x2 simultaneous games do not correspond to human behavior observed in laboratory experiments. The promising results of learning models in tracking human behavior coupled with the growing electronic market and the number of e-commerce applications has resulted in an increased interest in studying the behavi...

We explore the creation of cooperative behavioral trends in a group of agents, within the framework of an artificial physics simulation. Local interaction rules, that have “selfish” interpretations, were specifically designed to engender cooperative behavior. Although we conclude that it is necessary to further refine our specific set of interaction rules, our results support the view that it i...

Music as an environmental aspect of professional workplaces has been closely studied with respect to consumer behavior while sparse attention has been given to its relevance for employee behavior. In this article, we focus on the influence of music upon cooperative behavior within decision-making groups. Based on results from two extended 20-round public goods experiments, we find that happy mu...

Cooperative behavior is a desired trait in many fields from computer games to robotics. Yet, achieving cooperative behavior is often difficult, as maintaining shared information about the dynamics of agents in the world can be complex. We focus on the specific task of cooperative pathfinding and introduce a new approach based on the idea of “direction maps” that learns about the movement of age...

the performance of women agribusiness cooperatives in oyo state, nigeria was assessed in this study. the study employed a multi-stage sampling technique to select 6 women cooperative groups (aggregating to 175 individuals); 36 individual women; and 4 institutions across 6 lgas in two agricultural zones of the state. findings show that majority (55.6%) of the respondents belong to processing org...

We analyze the role of social structure in maintaining cooperation within a population of adaptive agents for whom cooperative behavior may be costly in the short run. We use the example of a collection of agents playing pairwise Prisoner's Dilemma. We call sustained cooperative behavior in such circumstances a 'cooperative regime'. We show that social structure, by channeling which agents inte...

Cooperation among genetically unrelated individuals is a fundamental aspect of society, but it has been a longstanding puzzle in biological and social sciences. Recently, theoretical studies in biology and economics showed that conditional cooperation-cooperating only with those who have exhibited cooperative behavior-can spread over a society. Furthermore, experimental studies in psychology de...