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Cooperation and Effort, Reciprocity and Mutual Supervision in Worker Cooperatives

In: Cooperative Firms in Global Markets

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  • Roger A. McCain

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This paper formalizes the determination of effort in work teams as a social dilemma, adding a mutual-monitoring activity and reciprocity motivations to the formal model of effort provision in cooperatives. It turns out that the cooperative solution is viable in a work group in which the workers frame effort as a reciprocal gift, and if they do frame effort in this way in worker cooperatives, this could explain the observed tendency of cooperatives to attain higher productivity.

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  • Roger A. McCain, 2007. "Cooperation and Effort, Reciprocity and Mutual Supervision in Worker Cooperatives," Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, in: Cooperative Firms in Global Markets, pages 185-203, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:aeapzz:s0885-3339(06)10007-1
    DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3339(06)10007-1
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