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Worker Trust, System Vulnerability, and the Performance of Work Groups

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Schotter, A.

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What we find is that teh match between vulnerability and trust is a key ingredient into what makes a group of workers work well together along with the type of coordination problem that is created by the equilibrium of the incentive scheme.

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Paper provided by C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University in its series Working Papers with number 96-32.

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Date of creation: 1996
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  2. Van Huyck, John B & Battalio, Raymond C & Beil, Richard O, 1990. "Tacit Coordination Games, Strategic Uncertainty, and Coordination Failure," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 80(1), pages 234-48, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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