Exploring the Impact of Reputation Systems on Sustaining Cooperation in DAOs in a Lab Experiment

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Project name
07.10 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Sustainable Cooperation through Reputation Based Governance and Smart Consensus?
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  • Work
Sustainability threat
  • External Shocks
Challenge
  • Reshaping organizational forms

Study info

Related studies according to this researcher
Governance through Reputation: an Inventory of Reputation Systems in DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)
Description of Study
The purpose of the study is to experimentally assess the influence of distinct reputation systems and task framings on cooperation within Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)-like settings.
Study research question
To what extent do the presence and characteristics of different reputation systems (none vs. automated tracking vs. peer review) and the framing of the tasks (internal vs. external) support sustainable cooperation over time in a DAO-like setting?
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  • Experiment
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The Ethics Committee of the Department of Sociology