Competition between organizational groups: Its impact on altruistic and antisocial motivations

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 948-960

  Goette, Lorenz ^a   Huffman, David ^b   Meier, Stephan ^c   Sutter, Matthias ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Army; Cooperation; Experiment; Group decisions; Punishment

Indexed keywords

ARMY; COOPERATION; GROUP DECISION; GROUP MEMBERSHIPS; NORM ENFORCEMENT; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL VALUES;

EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRY;

COMPETITION;

EID: 84861400511     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1466     Document Type: Article

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