Survival of firms requires continuous search for new and a restructuring of the existing competitive advantages. These can come either from firms’ internal factors or from cooperation with the environment. Cooperation among firms commonly takes place through the formation of strategic alliances. However, such form of cooperation presents only one stage in the integration of business entities. I...

337 The computerized ATPCO system, introduced in the early 1990s, allowed airlines to rapidly adjust prices and to monitor those of rivals. The result, according to the US Department of Justice, was anticompetitive behavior—firms were able to more easily cooperate to keep prices high, costing consumers up to 2 billion dollars (Borenstein 2003, Klein 1998). Does the ability to rapidly adjust act...

strategic alliance is a cooperation contract between two or more organizations who want to improve their competitive situation and performance through resource sharing. one of the common types of strategic alliances is the alliance between two organizations working in the same industry. one of those industries which alliances occur most likely is the casting industry. in this regard, this resea...

The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD) is a central paradigm in the study of animal cooperation. According to the IPD framework, repeated play (repetition) and reciprocity combine to maintain a cooperative equilibrium. However, experimental studies with animals suggest that cooperative behavior in IPDs is unstable, and some have suggested that strong preferences for immediate benefits (that is, ...

RIS is a New Delhi-based autonomous policy think-tank supported by the Government of India and devoted to trade and development issues. Its work programme focuses on policy research and capacity building on multilateral trade and financial negotiations, regional economic cooperation in Asia, South-South cooperation, new technologies and development, and strategic policy responses of developing ...

This paper presents an integrative distributed project management approach for product development. The core of the integrative model is the Triple C model of project management, which presents a systematic structure for Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination across product development functions. The achievement of lower product development cycles requires strategic implementation of proj...

From an experimental design, we nd that circumstance determines who takes the lead through communication. When the context varies exogenously, from containing mild to severe strategic con ict, initiative is taken by anyone in the former case, but by special individuals in the latter case. These special leaders dislike free-riding and lying. We show that initiative leads to cooperation even in g...

Academics and other researchers regularly engage in strategic interactions— bargaining, cooperation, collaboration, etc. Given this strategic setting, we ask: how do the dynamics of social learning in epistemic communities influence outcomes of various actors? We focus, in particular, on minority groups in academia. As we show, evolutionary game theoretic models indicate that such actors may be...

In this paper we introduce a strategic form model in which cooperation structures and divisions of the payoffs are determined simultaneously. We analyze the cooperation structures and payoff divisions that result according to Nash equilibria, strong Nash equilibria, and coalition proof Nash equilibria. We find that no cycle will be formed if a player claims a positive amount for the formation o...

We show that monetary exchange facilitates the transition from small to large-scale economic interactions. In an experiment, subjects chose to play an “intertemporal cooperation game” either in partnerships or in groups of strangers where payoffs could be higher. Theoretically, a norm of mutual support is sufficient to maximize efficiency through large-scale cooperation. Empirically, absent a m...