The concept of reputation plays a crucial role in the literature of economics and economic sociology by providing an explanation of how exchange relations can be regulated in the face of uncertainty. There is empirical evidence that reputational information helps to discipline actors and leads to cooperative behavior. The question as to how reputation emerges has, however, not yet been answered. This paper analyzes the conditions under which information about experiences made with a business partner are passed on to a third party. The theoretical reasoning relies on the assumption that passing on information depends on costs and benefits. Hypotheses concerning the probability of information transfer are postulated with respect to the workin...
A human solution to the problem of cooperation is the maintenance of informal reputation hierarchies...
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem o...
Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of cooperation is...
Wirtschaftliche Transaktionen sind geprägt von Unsicherheit. Oftmals verfügen die beteiligten Markta...
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human soc...
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human soc...
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human soc...
Inter-firm information exchange with respect to the reliability of trade partners may be unmediated ...
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human soc...
Reputation, the germ of gossip, is addressed in this chapter as a distributed instrument for social ...
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem o...
Abstract. Reputation is a fundamental instrument of partner selection. Developed within the domain o...
Paper aims to diagnose the role and position of reputation in communication strategies of contempor...
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem o...
Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of cooperation is...
A human solution to the problem of cooperation is the maintenance of informal reputation hierarchies...
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem o...
Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of cooperation is...
Wirtschaftliche Transaktionen sind geprägt von Unsicherheit. Oftmals verfügen die beteiligten Markta...
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human soc...
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human soc...
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human soc...
Inter-firm information exchange with respect to the reliability of trade partners may be unmediated ...
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human soc...
Reputation, the germ of gossip, is addressed in this chapter as a distributed instrument for social ...
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem o...
Abstract. Reputation is a fundamental instrument of partner selection. Developed within the domain o...
Paper aims to diagnose the role and position of reputation in communication strategies of contempor...
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem o...
Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of cooperation is...
A human solution to the problem of cooperation is the maintenance of informal reputation hierarchies...
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem o...
Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of cooperation is...