A game theoretical model for the stimulation of public cooperation in environmental collaborative governance

Abstract

Digital technologies provide a convenient way for the public to participate in environmental governance. Therefore, by means of a two-stage evolutionary model, a new mechanism for promoting public cooperation is proposed to accomplish environmental collaborative governance. Interactive effects of government–enterprise environmental governance are firstly explored, which is the external atmosphere for public behaviour. Second, the evolutionary dynamics of public behaviour is analysed to reveal the internal mechanism of the emergence of public cooperation in environmental collaborative governance projects. Simulations reveal that the interaction of resource elements between government and enterprise is an important basis for environmental governance performance, and that governments can improve this as well as public cooperation by increasing the marginal governance propensity. Similarly, an increase in the government's fixed expenditure item of environmental governance can also significantly improve government–enterprise performance and public cooperation. And finally, the effect of government's marginal incentive propensity on public environmental governance is moderated by enterprises' marginal environmental governance propensity, so that simply increasing the government's marginal incentive propensity cannot improve the evolutionary stable state of public behaviour under the scenario where enterprises’ marginal environmental governance propensity is low.

Integrated analysis of employee cooperation and conflict behaviors in the context of digital technology

“…Only one approach cannot explore the underlying mechanism of complex human psychological activities. Based on the theoretical framework of social exchange theory, this paper integrates evolutionary game, simulation, and catastrophe theory to provide a research framework for this field, 19 profoundly enhancing the analysis ability of the evolutionary game model for cooperation behavior evolution 11,12 and complementing previous research from the perspective of the evolutionary game and catastrophe. 27,30…”

“…11 The concise mathematical frameworks describe the relationship between participants (e.g., different types of networks) and the rules of behavior selection participants follow (e.g., social norms). 11 Game theory can also explore the stimulation policy of group collaborative behavior 12 and the mechanism of cooperation behavior evolution under different network scenes. 11 During interactions, most employee conflicts result from irrational impulses related to psychological factors (e.g., emotion brought by digital technology).…”