This is collective behavior and it is the collective result itself that particularly matters.

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Some like Ushahidi allow citizenry to define collective action simply by pooling individual action and behavior through collective intelligence and crowdsourcing.

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In fact, our collective retail spending behavior amounts to 70% of our United States gross domestic product.

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The sub-prime crisis constitutes the most glaring example of this schizophrenic behavior, and our collective inability to understand or refrain it.

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Their behavior became more and more collective as signals became more and more explicit.

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The goal was to help them understand their patterns of behavior, both individual and collective, and then change them.

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Their collective power and influence was recently recognized in the publication of FTC rules governing their behavior, adding in effect a set of standards to be followed by the amateurs.

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Managerial behavior is mapped on four dimensions: bureaucracy-to-emergence, hierarchy-to-collective wisdom, alignment-to-obliquity, and extrinsic-to-intrinsic motivation.

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