Since its introduction to the social psychology literature 60 years ago, Festinger's cognitive
dissonance theory (CDT) has been frequently applied to the management literature to …

This article reviews major developments from 2000 to early 2007 in the psychological
analysis of cognition in organizations. Our review, the first in this series to survey cognitive …

There is widespread agreement that status or standing in the international system is a critical
element in world politics. The desire for status is recognized as a key factor in nuclear …

In the research reported here, we investigated the debiasing effect of mindfulness meditation
on the sunk-cost bias. We conducted four studies (one correlational and three experimental); …

In recent years, there has been a move to identify the behavioral foundations underpinning
the evolutionary and economic fitness of the enterprise. Indeed, the dynamic capabilities …

The topic of escalation of commitment has intrigued the organizational sciences for over 35
years. A variety of theoretical explanations have been offered for why escalation occurs, and …

This study extends the growing body of research on customer incivility by examining its
impact on employees' in-role and extra-role service performance in the hospitality industry …

Are “Implications for Practice” sections in management journals as useless to practitioners
as Kieser and Leiner imply? Are they, like a particular journal's required reference …

In a study of 357 managers using multiple methods and raters, we investigated how leaders'
affective experience was linked to their transformational leadership. As predicted, we found …

Organizations, and the groups and individuals within them, sometimes face the thorny
dilemma of whether or not to continue failing courses of action. Escalation of commitment …