The authors examined the effects of competition and cooperation on intrinsic motivation and performance in 4 studies. Across 3 behavioral studies that involved shooting a basketball, no differences were observed between competition and cooperation on task enjoyment or performance. However, the combination of competition and cooperation (intergroup competition) consistently led to higher levels ...

Since no optimal structure exists, organizations have to be exible to dynamically react towards environment changes. In an economic context, agents are strongly autonomous and weakly rational and have to deal with cooperation and competition , as in task repartition domain. This paper proposes an open and distributed protocol based on exchange of preferences computed using qualitative and quant...

In management literature the hybrid behavior comprising competition and cooperation has been named coopetition. Whereas a number of authors (Brandenburger & Nalebuff, 1996; Lado, Boyd & Hanlon, 1997; Gnyawali & Madhavan, 2001) have recently emphasized the increasing importance of coopetition for today’s interfirm dynamics, scientific investigation on the issue of coopetition has not gone much f...

Citation: Majolo B and Romero T (2018) Commentary: No unique effect of intergroup competition on cooperation: non-competitive thresholds are as effective as competition between groups for increasing human cooperative behavior. Front. Psychol. 8:2322. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02322 Commentary: No unique effect of intergroup competition on cooperation: non-competitive thresholds are as effective a...

Social identity theory postulates that people are motivated to achieve a positive and distinct identity. One strategy in response to threatened identity is differentiation, the occupation of vacant social niches. Studies by Lemaine (1974) demonstrated that individuals when feeling inferior do in fact use differentiating behavior to justify themselves, both in situations with and without explici...

nowadays with high competition in area of business, companies have to use different strategies in order to face and control this competition. without doubt not only use of these strategies influences on packaging but also this issue affect on companies’ performance. hence, aim of this research is to study differentiation strategy of porter as a competitive strategy on organizational performance...