Does Peer Monitoring Relieve Free-riding in Cooperative Groups? Evidence From a Real-Effort Experiment

Abstract

Teams, cooperatives and other organizations are vulnerable to free riding. Free riders work do not expend as much effort as they would were they to work alone because the benefits of their effort are shared with others, and... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Avner Ben-Ner (University of Minnesota)
  2. Yanmei Wang (Northeastern University)
  3. Louis Putterman (Brown University)

Topic Area

3. Governance, employment and human resource management

Session

D04 » Workplace, cooperation and empowerment (09:00 - Wednesday, 5th July, MORE 56)

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