Revisiting the Effects of Group Identity and Information Diversity in a Leader-member Public Goods Experiment

Yuning Tang, Qinxin Guo and Junyi Shen
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Yuning Tang: Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, JAPAN
Qinxin Guo: School of International Economics and Trade, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, CHINA

No DP2022-35, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: We investigate the willingness to cooperate between leaders and members in a repeated public goods experiment, when there is group identity and information diversity between them. The participants who play the role of leader, first decide their contributions to the team project. Subsequently, members also decide their contributions. The results indicate that having the same group identity as the leader has a positive effect on members' intention to fully cooperate with the leader Additionally, in the case of being in the same group, disclosing information only to members may increase cooperation. Finally, cooperative behavior between members is closely related to the identity of the leader and information diversity.

Keywords: Leadership; Beliefs; Group identity; Information diversity; Public goods experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2022-09
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