The Firm Friendship: Turkish–Ukrainian Cooperation

Friendship, cliquishness, and the emergence of cooperation.

The evolution of cooperation is a central problem in biology and the social sciences. While theoretical work using the iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) has shown that cooperation among non-kin can be sustained among reciprocal strategies (i.e. tit-for-tat), these results are sensitive to errors in strategy execution, cyclical invasions by free riders, and the specific ecology of strategies. Mo...

Binding Conflict: The Competition-to-Cooperation Switch in Firm Dyads1

The Parsonian wisdom that social conflict has dissociating and disruptive effects guides the thinking of many students of economy. It leads them to believe that economic competition and cooperation are “polar opposites” and, consequently, competition between firms should hinder cooperation between them. I challenge the applicability of this intuitively appealing wisdom to economic life. My anal...

The Evolution of Friendship Limited partner choice, selective niceness and the emergence of cooperation

Biological markets and the effects of partner choice on cooperation and friendship

Cooperation is crucial to our survival and social success. People typically choose their social partners (e.g., friends, allies, mates), which allows us to avoid bad partners and preferentially interact with better ones. This creates a biological market where people prefer to associate with others who are willing and able to confer benefits upon partners. In such a market, it pays to compete to...

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...