Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/88246 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Economics and Evolution No. 1217
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
An evolutionary tool kit is applied in this paper to explain how innate social behavior traits evolved in early human groups. These traits were adapted to the particular production requirements of the group in human phylogeny. They shaped the group members' attitudes towards contributing to the group's goals and towards other group members. We argue that these attitudes are still present in modern humans and leave their phylogenetic footprints also in present-day organizational life. We discuss the implications of this hypothesis for problems arising in firm organizations in relation to the coordination and motivation of organization members.
Subjects: 
evolution
pre-adaptations
group selection
firm organization
organizational behavior
leadership
JEL: 
B25
D03
D23
D74
M14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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