Leaders have been argued to play a key role in determining organizational effectiveness
across all levels (eg, individual, team, unit) that exist within organizations. A key component …

This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We
argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague …

Research has established that people's environmental concern does not always translate
into pro-environmental behavior. On the basis of the social dilemma perspective, the present …

In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in
economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and …

Some social theorists claim that trust is necessary for the smooth functioning of a democratic
society. Yet many recent surveys suggest that trust is on the wane in the United States. Does …

Few social scientific concepts have gathered so much attention and so many followers in
such a short period of time than the concept of social capital. The fundamental idea can be …

Can we trust our elected representatives or is public life so corrupted that we can no longer
rely on governments to protect our interests or even our civil liberties? Is the current mood of …

When I published the Japanese edition of this book, there still was a widely shared
consensus that Japanese society was collectivistic in that its people sacrificed their personal …

We propose deception as a bridging concept that will enhance the study of misinformation,
disinformation, and misperceptions. As we set it out here, the concept integrates insights …

The authors critically assess the dimension of individualism-collectivism (IC) and its various
uses in cross-cultural psychology. They argue that IC research is characterized largely by …