Whether were buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisionsboth big and smallhave become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented.
IRestoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders/I is the first volume to adopt the mulidisciplinary approach required to understand the decline in public trust in contemporary institutions, and to propose and assess remedies.
The book explores the theoretical and empirical issues relating to the interaction between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities undertaken by Indian companies.
Macroeconomic research on human capital - the stock of human capabilities and knowledge - has been extensively published but to date the literature has lacked a comprehensive analysis of human capital within the organization.
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is at a crossroads economically, and faces the challenge of a weakening economy that could implode before 2030, the year set as a timetable by the kingdom in its Vision 2030.
This Element proposes a multi-level approach to studying government transparency that integrates insights from institutional, organizational, and behavioral perspectives on transparency.
This textbook addresses the core issues facing economists concerning price determination in commodity markets, especially food and agricultural commodities.
Since the height of the privatization debate in the 1990s, changes in government policy have resulted in significant transformation in the public sector.
Recent research in the field of business strategy has shown that strategic flexibility can be achieved through a scenario planning perspective for long-term competition and performance.
Dieses Buch untersucht menschliche Entscheidungsfindung und erklärt wie die Verhaltenswissenschaft Menschen helfen kann, rationalere Entscheidungen zu treffen.
Considering efficiency, equality, and morality, the book argues for qualified market expansion, particularly in legalizing kidney sales and prostitution.
Understand modern challenges in South African markets Consumer Behaviour: Global and Southern African Perspectives 2nd edition discusses the behaviour of consumers in the South African environment.
This book develops an empirically informed normative theory of need-based justice, summarizing core findings of the DFG research group FOR2104 "e;Need-based Justice and Distributive Procedures"e;.
This book explores ways in which inclusive entrepreneurship enhances bottom-up entrepreneurial activity for economic and societal transformation, particularly in remote areas.
Why the free-market system encourages so much trickery even as it creates so much goodEver since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand.
Innerhalb dieses literaturbasierten Forschungsprojektes werden Einflüsse zum einen durch die Dunkle Triade und zum anderen aus dem strategischen Risikomanagement untersucht.
This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus providing for the first time a bidirectional account of this pervasive social phenomenon, further bridging simple micro-level dyadic interaction rules with macro-level properties of the (social) system.
Through 'live' material from consulting practice and an historical review of advice-giving to pre-modern leaders, this book uncovers a distinctive 'feminine' discourse of management consulting.
Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo)capitalist social order.
Experimental Econophysics describes the method of controlled human experiments, which is developed by physicists to study some problems in economics or finance, namely, stylized facts, fluctuation phenomena, herd behavior, contrarian behavior,hedge behavior, cooperation, business cycles, partial information, risk management, and stock prediction.