Reyniers, Diane J. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0677-2020
(1996)
Cooperation in contests: a model of mixed organizational culture.
Rationality and Society, 8 (4).
pp. 413-432.
ISSN 1043-4631
Abstract
We use a contest framework to investigate the nature of organizational culture. Organization members decide whether to participate in the contest and if they do participate they have two possible modi operandi: be helpful or not. We state sufficient conditions, in terms of contest design, for the existence of various types of organizational culture and we show the possibility (at equilibrium) of a mixed organizational culture, i.e. the coexistence of two subcultures: a helping one and an individualistic one. We find that cooperation emerges only when prize density is sufficiently high. However, in a mixed culture the degree of cooperation decreases in the number of prizes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://rss.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 1996 Sage Publications |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2009 10:13 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 06:01 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25995 |
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