Cooperation dilemma

[The management]

A party faces a cooperation dilemma when another party doubts whether it (the first party) would implement its own position. Positive emotion jolts a party into eliminating a cooperation dilemma.

More precisely, A faces a cooperation dilemma with respect to B under collaboration if B doubts A’s stated intention to carry out a proposal of A. Under confrontation, a cooperation dilemma facing A is potential rather than actual, and exists when B doubts that A would implement a proposal made by both A and B. A’s dilemma is whether to accept B’s doubt by abandoning the doubted intention or proposal or, alternatively, to try to eliminate B’s doubt.

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Drama Theory version 2

In Drama Theory 2 a co-operation dilemma subsumed into the trust dilemma. This is because it always occurs as a response to a trust dilemma.

If party A "gives in" to a trust dilemma, (i.e. decides to trust party B anyway, without adequate guarantees) then and only then does this open up the possibility of the party B "stabbing party A in the back", by not acting according to its position (the original co-operation dilemma).

As a co-operation dilemma was always response to a trust dilemma, now it is assumed to be a trust dilemma of the other party on itself. Does it trust itself to keep its word?.