1993/07/27 by Natalie Glance, Glance, Natalie, Bernardo A. Huberman +2 · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #Business Strategy and Innovation #Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD) #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #adap-org #chao-dyn #nlin.AO #nlin.CD
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.chao-dyn/9307015
17 pages. Also available through anonymous ftp from parcftp.xerox.com in the directory /pub/dynamics
openalex publication_date 1993/07/27 · arxiv created 1993/08/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that fluid organizations display higher levels of cooperation than attainable by groups with either a fixed social structure or lacking one altogether. By moving within the organization, individuals cause restructurings that facilitate cooperation. Computer experiments simulating fluid organizations faced with a social dilemma reveal a myriad of complex cooperative behaviors that result from the interplay between individual strategies and structural changes. Significantly, fluid organizations can display long cycles of sustained cooperation interrupted by short bursts of defection.