Technical excess in accounting education has always been a source of discontent for educational reformers, however, two recent developments have rendered these deficiencies even more acute. First, intensified competition for traditional audit services has resulted in an increasingly inhospitable job market for accounting students. Second, predatory practices by educational, professional, and re...

See EC Competition Policy: The Merger and Acquisition Directive (Full-length Version). Copyright: 1992 INSEAD-CEDEP, France Also available: Teaching Note THE EC-JAPAN ELEMENTS OF CONSENSUS Jonathan Story Case Writer: Kathy Burton The case deals with the negotiations between the EC and Japan on automobiles concluded in June-July 1991. The main part of the case covers the EC story from the positi...

One of the more disturbing yet important findings in the social sciences is the observation that alternative tasks result in different expressed preferences among choice alternatives. We examine this problem not from the perspective of an individual making personal decisions, but from the perspective of an agent trying to follow the known values of a principal. In two studies, we train people t...

In the wake of the Cold War era, America’s research universities became increasingly characterized by a tribal mentality among schools and departments, and among the various disciplines. The surge in research funding, and the tremendous growth rate among the major public universities in particular, fostered the idea of a “multiversity” that was becoming less communal, and less aware of its coll...

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices leaders can initiate to extend, strengthen, or transform ‘‘ordinary capabilities’’ (Winter, 2003) into enhanced improvisational compe...

Narcissist” is a term that may be used lightly to describe or label someone that is selfcentered. However, research that suggests a possible increase in narcissistic personality tendencies among college-aged American students has a very real and serious impact on society. The goal of this paper is to examine the evolution of the concept of narcissism and its detrimental effects on society. This...