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Herrera, Helios, Reuben, Ernesto and Ting, Michael M. (2017) Turf wars. Journal of Public Economics, 152 . pp. 143-153. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.06.002 ISSN 0047-2727.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.06.002
Abstract
Turf wars in organizations commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to share jurisdiction over a project with other agents. Agents with jurisdiction decide whether to exert effort and receive a reward based on their relative performance. Hence, sharing can increase joint production but introduces competition for the reward. We find that collaboration has a non-monotonic relationship with both productivity and rewards. The laboratory experiment confirms the model's main predictions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Game theory, Cooperation -- Mathematical models | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Public Economics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0047-2727 | ||||||||
Official Date: | August 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 152 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 143-153 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.06.002 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 January 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 July 2019 |
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