The weakness of strong ties: Collective action failure in a highly cohesive group

Journal of Mathematical Sociology

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 3-28

  Flache, Andreas ^a   Macy, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Computer simulation; Group cohesiveness; Social control; Social dilemmas; Social networks; Stochastic learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002297882     PISSN: 0022250X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0022250X.1996.9990172     Document Type: Article

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