Published in:Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Working Paper ; No. 14/2012
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1 Online-Ressource (16 p)
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English
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In: Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Working Paper No. 14/2012
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 29, 2012 erstellt
Description:
This paper studies the profile of cooperation emerging in a context in which agents may choose to join one of two groups or stay on their own, in a world where similarity across peers matters. In particular, we investigate the role of heterogeneity in individual contributions, of the level of information and of in-group processes of convergence in values (sense making) in fostering higher levels of cooperation, assessed through higher participation rates to groups. Starting from the result that more heterogeneity reduces participation, we show that increasing the level of information available to subjects and activating sense-making dynamics are able to support higher cooperation levels, which, however, come at the cost of increased radicalization of agent types within group