What counts as human rationality: reasoning processes that embody content-independent formal theories, such as propositional logic, or reasoning processes that are well designed for solving important adaptive problems? Most theories of human reasoning have been based on content-independent formal rationality, whereas adaptive reasoning, ecological or evolutionary, has been little explored. We e...

We introduce learning in a principal-agent model of stochastic output sharing under moral hazard. Without knowing the agents’ preferences and technology the principal tries to learn the optimal agency contract. We implement two learning paradigms social (learning from others) and individual (learning by doing). We use a social evolutionary learning algorithm (SEL) to represent social learning. ...

ISSN 0265–8240 © 2007 The Authors Journal compilation © 2007 Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK LAPO aw & Policy 0265-8240 © 2007 The Aut or Journal compilation © 2007 Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy J nuary 2 07 29 1 riginal Article W & POLICY January 2007 Feld Frey TAX COMPLIANCE AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL TAX CONTRACT Tax Compliance as the Result of a P...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the distribution of dominant values, actors, and ideological advocacy coalitions influencing the Social Security debate across two presidential administrations. METHODS Through content and cluster analyses, we analyzed federal legislative hearing testimonies on Social Security reform spanning 11 years. RESULTS Witnesses consistently expres...

This study investigates how inspirational leadership and technology support for contextualization influence individuals’ psychological contract and knowledge sharing in distributed teams. Drawing on the intersection between social identity, psychological contract and leadership theories, the current research highlights the importance of inspirational leaders who foster two kinds of psychologica...

Many emergent ventures, such as social networks, leverage crowd-sourced information assets as essential pillars supporting their business models. The appropriation of rights to information assets through legal contracts often fails to prevent conflicts between the users and the companies that claim information rights. In this paper, we focus on social networks and examine why those conflicts ar...

The eCommerce domain needs more and more automation, speed and security for its customers. That’s why the number of B2B applications handling electronic contracts and digital signatures is still increasing. These ones are based on certificates and use secure communication protocols. Nevertheless most of them don’t take into account negotiation regarding to contracts clauses and arbitration of p...