Competition or Cooperation?

Quality Competition or Quality Cooperation ? ∗

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus closed source (CS) business models are analyzed in a general two-stage model that combines aspects of...

Cooperation Competition Running head: A THEORY OF COOPERATION - COMPETITION A Theory of Cooperation - Competition and Beyond

This chapter is concerned with my interrelated theoretical work in the areas of cooperation competition, conflict resolution, social justice, and social relations. The theory of cooperation competition is a component of the other theories. Thus, the theory of conflict resolution is based on this theory and my Crude Law of Social Relations. My work in social justice is also based on this theory,...

EMA and national drug agencies: cooperation or competition?

Since 1995, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted the centralized procedure to grant marketing authorizations across all its Member States. This attempt to harmonize the drug regulation procedure in Europe, of which the centralized procedure is a major expression, goes back well beyond the creation of EMA. In 1965, the first European legislation in the pharmaceutical sector clarified ...

Seeing Cooperation or Competition: Ecological Interactions in Cultural Perspectives

Do cultural models facilitate particular ways of perceiving interactions in nature? We explore variability in folkecological principles of reasoning about interspecies interactions (specifically, competitive or cooperative). In two studies, Indigenous Panamanian Ngöbe and U.S. participants interpreted an illustrated, wordless nonfiction book about the hunting relationship between a coyote and b...

Competition and Cooperation