Helen saw a picture of an attractive man in an online dating page and is happy that he accepted to meet her in a coffee house. As he arrives, Helen feels disappointed because the picture posted online does not reflect the current looks of the person. Is Helen’s disappointment caused by his current looks or by the expectation she developed after seeing his picture? Tom used to like sweets, but a...

By incentive reversal we refer to situations in which an increase of rewards for all agents results in fewer agents exerting effort. We show that externalities among peers may give rise to such intriguing situations even when all agents are fully rational. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition on the organizational technology in order for it to be susceptible to incentive reversal. Th...

Current research refers to videogames as a constant variable. However, games today are designed to be highly interactive and versatile: two players may be using the same videogame, but as a result of different using patterns, the game will not necessarily encompass the same content and gameplay. The current study examined the possible relationship between psychopathology and in-game playing pat...

The importance of sectoral linkages and complementarities for economic development are timeless themes, discussed in the classics of the subject such as Wassily Leontief (1936) and Albert O. Hirschman (1958). In the same spirit, development economists have studied the technological challenges in sustaining complex production processes. The O-ring theory of Michael Kremer (1993) and the role of ...

How do managers make their decisions with regard to adjustment and deployment of information technology (IT) over time? Motivated by this complex dynamics, we draw on behavioral theory of the firm and theorize a bounded rational process of managerial decision making for IT investment. In particular, we explain the dynamic adjustment of IT investment by bounded rational managers’ pursuing of sat...

The government organizations grant incentives to promote green product consumption, improve green product quality, boost remanufacturing activities, etc. through various policies. The objective of this study is to highlight pros and cons of two incentive policies, namely (1) incentive on manufacturer’s R&D investment and (2) direct incentive to consumer based on greening level of the product on...

Externalizing psychopathology (EXT) is associated with low executive working memory (EWM) capacity and problems with inhibitory control and decision-making; however, the specific cognitive processes underlying these problems are not well known. This study used a linear ballistic accumulator computational model of go/no-go associative-incentive learning conducted with and without a working memor...

service oriented enterprises (soes) are subject to constant change and variation. in this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. we construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...

This paper begins with a review of the different forms of evidence on incentives in organizations. It is argued that it is not possible to understand modern organizations using one kind of data or empirical model. There is a need to combine standard regression studies with survey and laboratory evidence to obtain a complete picture of how modern organizations operate. The evidence that we have ...