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Greed And Fear In The Spatial Dilemmas Model: Implications For Cooperation Among Organizations, James A. Kitts

James Kitts

Organizational populations engage in institutional entrepreneurship – including both public and private (e.g., ‘self-’) regulation – to facilitate inter-organizational cooperation. We investigate the consequences of this regulation, distinguishing two dimensions of social dilemmas: the gains for exploiting cooperative partners (Greed) and the cost of cooperating with exploitive partners (Fear). Specifically, we model an embedded social dilemma in which organizations exchange with partners and strategies diffuse through networks by social learning. Our analysis and computational experiment show that embedding exchange in social networks leads Greed and Fear to have divergent and highly nonlinear effects at the macro level. ‘Virtual interventions’ demonstrate …