Organizations can not make significant gains if some people within the organization are significant personal risks that catalyze effective collective action. The authors show that these people - what they call the respective author "- could change the perception of the other group members by modeling cooperative behavior, thus increasing the chances for a further cooperation. These people, they explain, always contribute, regardless of the choice of others. They describe their research results, which show that characterizes consistent participants as suckers "is misleading and mistaken: indeed, their data leads them to believe that matches investors actually saviors" and not suckers. Serious test for the leaders, the is to create contexts that encourage and support the emergence and recognition under Authors. "Hide
by Mark Weber, Keith Murnighan Source: Rotman School of Management, 5 pages. Publication Date: April 1, 2009. Prod. #: ROT083- PDF-ENG
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