Joint projects lack money

Navigating joint projects with dialogue

Dialogue has its origins in joint activities, which it serves to coordinate. Joint activities, in turn, usually emerge in hierarchically nested projects and subprojects. We propose that participants use dialogue to coordinate two kinds of transitions in these joint projects: vertical transitions, or entering and exiting joint projects; and horizontal transitions, or continuing within joint proj...

Transparency of Peer Activities Confounds Cheap Talk in Joint Projects

One form of peer influence in joint projects/teams/partnerships with incomplete information is through information transmission that occurs simply with team members talking to each other, holding motivational sessions etc. – activities that convey what the success of the team as a whole means to individuals. I call such activities, in the language of game theory, cheap talk. Information transmi...

Cheap talk, efficiency and egalitarian cost sharing in joint projects

Rarely, if ever, do parties contemplating a joint project commit resources without engaging in non-binding discussions on who does what. Here we argue that such noncommittal discussions may be essential to complete a joint project. We make this point by identifying an interesting class of situations where the private information of the two parties is such that, absent prior discussions, the pro...

Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions through Joint Implementation of Projects

Analyzing Iran petroleum Industry Experience in Technological Learning in Joint R&D projects

Analyzing Iran petroleum Industry Experience in Technological Learning in Joint R&D projects The purpose of this study is to review and present the pattern of technological learning in Joint R&D projects in petroleum industry to provide the necessary basis for improving technological learning in petroleum industry. Therefore, technological learning process in JRDs is conducted by using theme an...