cooperation

Qualification criteria

A place to record the adopted definition, its attribution, and whether intention, awareness, benefit, or mutual adjustment is required.

1. What must be present for joint operation or action to count as cooperation in this setting? definition
2. Which source or participant endorses these criteria, and whose competing interpretation would change the classification? provenance
3. Would compelled, unintentional, or unequally beneficial joint action qualify under the adopted criteria? boundary

Joint action evidence

Records observable links between contributions and distinguishes the episode from coincidentally parallel activity.

1. What evidence shows that participants' contributions connect in one operation rather than merely occur together? measurement
2. What marks the beginning, end, and boundary of this cooperation within a wider relationship? boundary

Participant standing

Records participants, representatives, participation terms, and limits on committing others.

1. Who contributes to the joint operation, and who is only a beneficiary, observer, or affected party? boundary
2. What evidence establishes each participant's acceptance, direction, compulsion, or disputed involvement? provenance
3. Who may commit, revise, or withdraw each participant's contribution, and within what limits? action

Shared and divergent purposes

Records agreements and differences over what participants are doing together and what each hopes to obtain.

1. How does each participant describe the joint operation and their own reason for contributing? definition
2. Which differences in purpose remain compatible with joint action, and which would prevent a required contribution? boundary

Connected contributions

Records promised and observed contributions, their recipients, and their timing and acceptance conditions.

1. What does each participant contribute, and which other contribution or joint result depends on it? measurement
2. What timing, quality, or access conditions make each contribution usable by the others? measurement
3. Which contributions can be substituted or reordered, and whose agreement is needed? action

Coordination and feedback

Identifies communication, protocols, or cues that connect participant decisions during joint action.

1. How do participants learn that a dependent contribution is ready, delayed, changed, or unusable? measurement
2. How are conflicting instructions or incompatible adjustments resolved, and who may decide? action

Participation exchange

Records what participants expect to give, receive, and risk without assuming equal exchange or reciprocal motivation.

1. What costs, risks, and benefits does each participant expect and actually experience? measurement
2. Which allocation rules or reciprocal expectations have participants acknowledged, and which are merely inferred? provenance
3. Which disputed terms require renegotiation for participants to remain willing and able to contribute? action

Contribution breakdown

Records unmet expectations, competing explanations, and available routes to restore joint action.

1. What evidence distinguishes inability, misunderstanding, dependency failure, and deliberate withholding in an unmet contribution? measurement
2. What clarification, assistance, renegotiation, or escalation is authorised, and by whom? action

Progress and outcomes

Records contribution fulfilment, progress against agreed criteria, and differences in participant assessments.

1. Which contributions were due and accepted during the assessment period, under whose acceptance criteria? measurement
2. What evidence distinguishes successful joint results from continuing cooperation despite failure or delay? boundary
3. Where do participant assessments of progress or benefit disagree, and what evidence could resolve the disagreement? measurement

Cooperation transition

Identifies transition triggers, decision authority, and consequences for contributions already underway.

1. What conditions distinguish temporary interruption, participant withdrawal, completion, and dissolution of this cooperation? boundary
2. Who may initiate each transition, and what notice, handover, or handling of outstanding contributions is required? action

Check these first

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1. Which of these check these first hold for the sense of cooperation this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Kinds and varieties

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1. Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of cooperation this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Standards and regulation

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1. Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of cooperation this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Real-world use

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1. Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of cooperation this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Typical measurements

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1. Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of cooperation this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Failure modes and hazards

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1. Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cooperation this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart

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1. Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of cooperation this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance