The complexity of social outcomes from cooperative, competitive, and individualistic reward systems

Social Justice Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 237-269

  Gordon, Frederick M ^a,d   Welch, Kathryn R ^a   Gregory, Offringa ^b   Katz, Nancy ^c  

^a Institute for Work Democracy   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c Boston Institute for Psychotherapy   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Cooperation; Distributive justice; Reward systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144470999     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026407422558     Document Type: Article

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