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Building Organization Theory from First Principles: The Self-Enhancement Motive and Understanding Power and Influence
2005
Organization science (Providence, R.I.)
constructs frequently treated as distinct in the literature and providing some hypotheses for future research. ...
the persistence of hierarchical structures) can all be logically derived from the self-enhancement idea, the desire to see oneself and one's actions in a positive light. ...
Acknowledgments The authors appreciate the comments of Dale Miller and Charles O'Reilly on an earlier draft of this paper. ...
doi:10.1287/orsc.1050.0132
fatcat:o6v2b3ocb5dv7f2pt43b5s7aoy
Organized Illusions: A Behavioral Theory of Why Corporations Mislead Stock Market Investors (And Cause Other Social Harms)
1997
University of Pennsylvania law review
them for changes in technologies and market conditions.' 7 4 Quite separately, we should also take note of the difficulties associated with organizational learning and rational choice. ...
If we simply view this through the investor-company relationship lens, the fake optimism may seem puzzling, at least from a rational perspective. ...
At the risk of some repetition, the following account is a generic story of "wrongdoing" that is more a failure of rationality than an example of venality. ...
doi:10.2307/3312706
fatcat:ugezka2y4fgi5ecinjskffsnzm
The Practice of Scenario Planning: An Analysis of Inter- and Intra-organizational Strategizing
2015
British Journal of Management
between workplace abuse and outcomes, organizational factors leading to abuse, and the discrepancy between beliefs and organizational practices. ...
It adopts a life course method, an
approach traditionally rooted in social psychology. ...
We propose antecedents that predict workplace hazing, followed by the positive outcomes for work groups and individuals. We also identify moderating factors. ...
doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12098
fatcat:dtaxvno4ijffrnjiohmenbrwsy
It's Not Easy Being Green: The Role of Self-Evaluations in Explaining Support of Environmental Issues
2014
Academy of Management Journal
At stake is the survival of our civilization as we know it and the type of world we are going to leave as a legacy for those who follow us. Gore (2012) 7 ...
of life domains (work, home, or school). ...
This perspective suggests that self-affirmers may have more self-concordance and therefore be more motivated to pursue their goal of issue support through more action. ...
doi:10.5465/amj.2010.0445
fatcat:crly7kykyze3tegyo2f2qxq3mu
Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it
2013
Research in organizational behavior
Portions of this chapter were presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management; we are grateful to symposium participants and attendees for their suggestions. ...
Acknowledgements
References Ethically Adrift
Acknowledgments We thank Art Brief and Barry Staw for helpful feedback and constructive comments on earlier drafts. ...
rationalize it becomes a less considered or even a mindless or automatic choice. ...
doi:10.1016/j.riob.2013.08.001
fatcat:fl4m2t7hvreg7buz3nmi3bt6hq
The internet in everyday life: Computer networking from the standpoint of the domestic user
2001
New Media & Society
The instrumental perspective finds the motive and smctunng force for developing and using technologies inside the human subject(s). ...
Interesthgly however, these inhabitants of the margins of the computerized world seemed to find rationales for engaging with computers (and the Internet) that were deviant from the dominant programs for ...
We will fix a day and tirne (any time convenient for both of us between 8 a.m. and 8 pm.) when 1 can corne and visit you at your home for the interview. ...
doi:10.1177/14614440122225994
fatcat:7okeavmjxbbwpkvvnnl5qmhlka
The Heart Is a Hand Grenade: Plastic Figurations of Bodies at War
[chapter]
2019
Materiality in Institutions
OAP 2016 will be focused on the theoretical perspectives and ontologies that inform the (meaning of these) new modalities of institutions and institutional dynamics, and that affect how these changes matter ...
After Paris in , London in 2013, Roma in 2014 and Sydney in 2015 it is a pleasure to now meet in Lisbon, for a new series of exciting presentations and debates on organizations, artefacts and practices ...
For less motivated and engaged ones, testing the prototype was a way for the new technology to develop in the longer term. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97472-9_11
fatcat:lpp6ehdx3jgdponnkva57364ou
Rhetoric, Accounting and Accountability: COVID-19 and the Case of Italy
2021
Sustainability
The current dramatic context of COVID-19 has urged academics and practitioners to tackle the topic of the pandemic not only regarding its medical side but from the perspective of social sciences, accounting ...
In this sense, our paper moves from the pivotal work of Higgins and Walker (2012) and Merkl-Davies and Brennan (2017) and tries to trace the use and the extent of accounting communication by companies ...
Acknowledgments: The authors acknowledge Libero Istituto Universitario C.Cattaneo (LIUC) for the financial support given to their research project. ...
doi:10.3390/su13084100
fatcat:fc6zqkwplfbojnbc6ud7mg3fhu
Power and Resistance : Variations on "what's going on politically in and around organizations?"
2011
M@n@gement
general and organizational and management theory in particular. ...
It is to be found at the heart of all social relationships, and forms a leitmotiv for social action (Russell, 1938; Foucault, 1977; Laclau & Mouffe, 1985; Clegg, 1989; Machiavelli, 1981). ...
My purpose was also not to be cornered or blinded by one perspective only for the rest of my scientific life. ...
doi:10.37725/mgmt.v14.4061
fatcat:4hwnhvlwzbhrjjin4ds5gfqhxu
Embodiment
[chapter]
2017
Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
At its most foundational level, it argues that individuals do not buy, exchange, or even produce goods; rather, service (through the performance of deeds, processes, and performances for others) is the ...
Acknowledgements This research arises from the project
A Service-Dominant Logic for Education Over the last decade, a new, and significant, paradigm of/for business has emergeda Service-Dominant Logic ...
For Hodgkinson drew attention to the many ethical issues that arise in administrative life, including both the setting of organizational goals and the making of choices about how to achieve them. ...
doi:10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_100335
fatcat:jmp7imwrbbak5iwwkd4rak5gra
Education and Big Data
[chapter]
2017
Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
At its most foundational level, it argues that individuals do not buy, exchange, or even produce goods; rather, service (through the performance of deeds, processes, and performances for others) is the ...
Acknowledgements This research arises from the project
A Service-Dominant Logic for Education Over the last decade, a new, and significant, paradigm of/for business has emergeda Service-Dominant Logic ...
For Hodgkinson drew attention to the many ethical issues that arise in administrative life, including both the setting of organizational goals and the making of choices about how to achieve them. ...
doi:10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_128
fatcat:mwvnoe4hazcm5amh55hse4zose
Suicidal protests: Self-immolation, hunger strikes, or suicide bombing
2014
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America; attackers who were male, female, young, old, Islamic, and Christian; attackers who carried out the most deadly and the least deadly strikes. ...
Lankford finds risk factors for suicide for about 40 of these cases. ...
The cognitive simplicity in rationalizing the true motive behind Atta's action is obvious, and may even have been rewarding for him. ...
doi:10.1017/s0140525x13003439
pmid:25162850
fatcat:ehfdskkudzefbc7goqfe46yazq
Précis of The Myth of Martyrdom: What Really Drives Suicide Bombers, Rampage Shooters, and Other Self-Destructive Killers
2014
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America; attackers who were male, female, young, old, Islamic, and Christian; attackers who carried out the most deadly and the least deadly strikes. ...
Lankford finds risk factors for suicide for about 40 of these cases. ...
The cognitive simplicity in rationalizing the true motive behind Atta's action is obvious, and may even have been rewarding for him. ...
doi:10.1017/s0140525x13001581
pmid:24826814
fatcat:ytumridxhnfz3bjurklk6grx3a
Conflicts, Commitments, and Cliques in the University: Moral Seduction as a Threat to Trustee Independence
2009
The American Educational Research Journal
My work examines the organizational politics of public higher education, both in the U.S. and cross-nationally, with a particularly focus on state and institutional governance. ...
Using my training in higher education and organizational sociology, my current research projects are trying to expand our understanding of the organizational dynamics of governing board relationships and ...
First, based on the perspective of insiders, who are the external interests that seek to influence public university governing boards and reduce trustee independence? ...
doi:10.3102/0002831208329439
fatcat:pmr5r6wh3rd45l6zinb3gkxzpi
A normality bias in legal decision making
2003
Cornell law review
The Article concludes with a discussion of the implications of a robust normality bias for American jurisprudence. ...
They find that jurors pay much more attention to the normality of conditions than to whether those conditions arose through acts or omissions. ...
Montgomery, Rationality and the Framing of Religious Choices, 35J. ScI. ...
pmid:12645584
fatcat:p6xs33qgyjcq3mvryxdaptjr5e
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