Publications

Many of the chapters in the present volume discuss variables or situations that affect the outcome of resistance, the process of resistance, or people’s motivation to resist. The present chapter differs in that the authors’ interest lies in…

Book Overview: The effectiveness of market discipline — the strong built-in incentives that encourage banks and financial systems to operate soundly and efficiently — commands much attention today, particularly in light of recent…

This chapter is about people’s attempts to resist persuasion by counterarguing and the consequences of the attempted resistance for the strength of the resulting attitudes. The authors’ framework can be stated simply in 3 propositions. First,…

Every CEO must always be concerned with the competition. In today’s economy the battlefield is shifting from individual company performance to what we call Supply Chain Performance. Supply Chain Performance refers to the extended supply chain’s…

We argue that competition among organizations is history-dependent, so that each organization’s competitiveness at a given point in time hinges on the organization’s historical experience leading up to that point. Specifically, we summarize the…

In recent years, patent protection has extended into new areas, giving rise to serious concern about the lack of clear guidelines for patentability. We analyze the effect of introducing a patent opposition process that would allow patent validity…

This chapter reviews contemporary issues in attitudes and persuasion. We describe controversies regarding the underlying bases of attitudes and the debate over whether attitudes are stored memorial representations or constructed on the spot. We…

Although there are many varieties of feminist theory, they share two objectives. The first is descriptive: to reveal obvious and subtle gender inequalities. The second is change-oriented: to reduce or eradicate those inequalities. Feminist…

To understand the contemporary state of organizational culture theory and research, it is necessary to grapple with some of the major intellectual disputes that have swept through the humanities and social sciences in recent years. Some…

I grew up in New England near the sea, and like everyone else there, I learned that swimming the tide was exhausting, especially where currents ran fast. Now, I am a professor, with left-wing values, working at a school and in academic fields…

A new career in academia can be a challenge. While academia’s formal rules are published in faculty handbooks, its implicit rules are often difficult to discern. Like the first edition, this new and expanded volume of The Compleat Academic…

Impersonal criteria for making decisions and restraints on emotional expression at work have long been the hallmarks of organizational life (for example, Weber, 1946, 1981). Recent work has broken this emotional taboo (for example, Fineman, 1996…