Project info
Project name
9.4: Cooperation Dynamics in Organizations
Work package
- Work
Sustainability threat
- Feedback Cycles
Challenge
- Reconciling stakeholder interests
Study info
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Understanding the Structural and Cultural Antecedents of Workplace Cooperation
Description of Study
We study how employees define and experience workplace cooperation across 380 participants in 26 countries. Rather than imposing predefined measures, we asked people what cooperation means to them in their own words. What they described was relational and cultural: trust, mutual respect, shared purpose, and a supportive atmosphere. Formal structures barely featured. The findings show that cooperation is lived as a social process grounded in everyday relationships, not in roles or incentives, offering a bottom-up picture of what makes cooperation work and what makes it break down.
Study research question
How do employees define and experience workplace cooperation in their everyday work?
Collection provenance
- Collected during project
Collection methods
- Questionaire
Personal data
No
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Data types
- Structured
Languages
- English
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Variables
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Sample size
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Individuals
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380
Participants were recruited through Prolific, an online research platform, but not randomly. The study applied deliberate selection criteria to ensure both diversity and comparability across the sample. Only currently employed individuals with experience working in teams were included. Beyond that, the sampling strategy sought variation across company size, employer type (for-profit, government, nonprofit), employment sector, and contract type (full-time or part-time). This makes it purposive rather than purely random
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Theory
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Conflict of interest
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Ethics
Ethical assessment
Yes
Ethical committee
RUG Ethics Committee Sociology