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1、April16,200215:36WSPC/151-IGTR00051InternationalGameTheoryReview,Vol.4,No.1(2002)1{16cWorldScienticPublishingCompanyTHEDYNAMICSOFCOOPERATIONFOUADELOUARDIGHILogistics,ProductionandServiceDepartment,ESSECBusinessSchoolAvenueBernardHirsch,B.P.105,95021,CergyPontoi
2、se,FranceInthispaper,theproblemofcooperationisformulatedinadynamicframework.Theproposedmodelinterrelatestheprocessofajointproductionactivityinvolvingtwopart-nersandthedynamicsofacommonmonitoringactivityoftheirrespectivecontributions.Analysisoftheexistenceofastat
3、ionaryequilibriumleadstoasetofpredictionsonthelongrunissueofcooperationfromgiveninitialconditions.Keywords:Cooperation;Opportunism;Trust;Vigilance;JointProduction;CommonMonitoring.1.IntroductionAlthoughadistinctionmustbemadebetweencooperationandtrust[KeeandKnox(
4、1970),Kimmel(1974),andCurrallandInkpen(2000)],theirinterweavinghasnowbecomemoreandmoreunquestionable.aHowever,whilecooperationisgenerallyviewedasaimingatjointcreationofvaluebetweenpartners,noconsensualdeni-tionoftrusthasemergeduptonow.bDepartingfromotheraccepta
5、tions(Rousseauetal.,1998),Iproposetoviewtrustattheinterrmlevelasafavourableattitudeofonepartnervis-a-visanotherpartner'sreliablecommitmentwithinapartnership.Statedsomewhatdierently,onepartner'sunreliablecommitmentissupposedtogiverisetoanattitudeofvigilancefro
6、mtheotherpartner.Theintegrationofmutualvigilanceattitudestoeachothers'unreliablerespectivecommitments,ifany,mayndexpressionwithinacommonmonitoringactivity,i.e.acommonsafe-guardingactivity.Accordingly,cooperationshouldthenbeorganisedontwomajoractivities:jointpro
7、ductionandcommonmonitoring.Theissueconsideredinthispaperisthatofthedynamicsofcooperationwithinapartnershipwherejointproductionandcommonmonitoringactivitiesaretightlyinterrelated.Inthissense,anattemptismadetounifysomeofthecooperativestrategyliteraturewithinadynam
8、icmodelofcooperationinvolvingtherespectiveaSee,amongothers,Gambetta(1988),Lorenz(1988),andSako(1998).bTrustcanbeapprehendedmanifold:calculativeversusrelational,cognit