Institutional framing: Some experimental evidence

Recommendations for broadening experimental analyses to include institutional frames are occurring more frequently in the literature. We report the results of a simple two-stage institutional framing experiment. First, cooperatives and entrepreneur business-strategy frames are generated. Second, same sex groups play a public good provision game. The results suggest that cooperative or non-cooperative solutions may be elicited via institutional frames which implicate business standards of teamwork or autonomy, respectively. Additionally, differences in mean responses between males and females under each business strategy frame were insignificant. Finally, possible motivational factors were examined using regression analysis. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.