Publications

Large scale asset purchases (“LSAPs,” also often referred to as quantitative easing or “QE”) are a tool first deployed by the Bank of Japan in 2001, and then used more widely by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and the Bank of England…

The once mutual relationship between social movement and organizational studies has recently become lopsided. Organizational studies scholars have increasingly drawn on insights from the social movements literature, at the same time social…

The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid innovation and the collection and use of detailed consumer and market data. I describe these changes and some of the economic…

Social movement research has developed a rich tradition of using data on collective action and protest events (hereafter “events”) that are culled from various sources (e.g. news reports, police records). Event data have been used by scholars to…

Social scientists use the term diffusion to refer to the spread or flow of an innovation across actors in a social system. When we speak of diffusion of social movements, we mean that some element of a social movement (e.g. tactic, frame…

This chapter develops a unified modeling framework for analyzing the strategic behavior of forecasters. The theoretical model encompasses reputational objectives, competition for the best accuracy, and bias. Also drawing from the extensive…

This chapter describes the mechanisms through which the experience of processing ease, or fluency, can influence attitudes and persuasion. In particular, we argue that ease can impact attitude change not only by serving as a peripheral cue (e.g…

Because employment is simultaneously an economic and a social relationship, one cannot profitably study it as one or the other in isolation. To understand employment relationships requires taking into account both economic and social-…

Game theory is the natural tool when analyzing the strategic use of natural resources. This article presents a sequence of related simple two-stage games to illustrate a range of problems, generating a large number of lessons. It explores…

The design of employees’ jobs can significantly shape how they experience the meaningfulness of their work (Hackman & Oldham, 1980; Grant, 2007). A job design is comprised of the tasks and relationships assigned to one person in an…

In this chapter we address three types of uncertainty and how they affect three types of multiparty negotiations. In intra-team negotiations, multilateral negotiations, and negotiations that take place in marketplaces, negotiators need to…

Attitudes refer to the general and relatively enduring evaluations people have of other people, objects, or ideas. These overall evaluations can be positive, negative, or neutral, and can vary in their extremity. For example, one individual might…

In this chapter, we consider strategies for producing behavior change on a large scale, analyzing various intervention efforts in light of their capacity to move people toward desirable behavior and away from undesirable behavior. Invariably,…

As a psychological construct, the self has long occupied a preeminent place in both psychological and management theories regarding human behavior. In fact, the self is among the most widely studied concepts in the social sciences. The…

Vertical integration occupies a central role in organizational economics. Williamson (2005) calls it the “paradigm” problem for explaining the distribution of firms and markets in modern economies. In this chapter, we review research on vertical…

For millions of people across Africa, health interventions such as vaccines, HIV counseling and treatment, and other public health expertise are out of reach. Barriers to health care can include shortage of health personnel, scarcity of medicines…

Over the past few years, nations around the world have reeled from a series of catastrophic failures of institutional trustworthiness. As a consequence of these failures, public confidence and trust in such institutions have plummeted, leaving…

Personnel economics is the application of economic and mathematical approaches to traditional topics in the study of human resource management. This includes such topics as compensation, turnover, and incentives that are inherently economic, as…