Book Review: <i>Co-operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina’s New Worker Co-operatives</i>, by Denise Kasparian

Computer Supported Co - operative Work

Group-ware is about group-work. It is about developing technologies that support the way people communicate and collaborate to accomplish work goals in the context of personal,managerial and organizational imperatives. In contrast to single user applications which support peoples’ tasks, groupware supports peoples’ work. Tasks are often explicit, observable and concrete. Work is often tacit...

Do Women Prefer a Co‐operative Work Environment? Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our baseline treatment, but women and ...

Computer Support for Co-Operative Work

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Background: The need for fast and accurate scoring functions has been driven by the increased use of in silico virtual screening twinned with high-throughput screening as a method to rapidly identify potential candidates in the early stages of drug development. We examine the ability of some the most common scoring functions (GOLD, ChemScore, DOCK, PMF, BLEEP and Consensus) to discriminate corr...

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