A B S T R AC T We proposed that the social exchange relationships individuals form in the workplace would mediate the relation between perceptions of interactional and distributive justice and social loafing. Specifically, we argued that both leader–member exchanges (LMX) and team–member exchanges (TMX) would mediate the relation between interactional justice and social loafing, and that LMX wo...

This paper investigates how the formation of larger buyers affects a supplier’s profits and, by doing so, his incentives to undertake non-contractible activities. We first identify two channels of buyer power, which allows larger buyers to obtain discounts. We subsequently examine the effects of buyer power on the supplier’s incentives and on social welfare. Contrary to some informal claims in ...

We construct an algebraic model of the social choice theory. First we give an arithmetic proof of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem. Next we apply our algebraic method to single-peaked preference domain to establish two theorems. (i) A value of Arrovian social welfare function on single peaked preference domain is single-plateaued with at most two maximal elements. (ii) An ordering by majority voti...

We study mechanisms where a player’s strategy is one of his possible (payoff) types and at least one player is Knightian, that is, cannot distinguish which element of a “candidate set” with multiple types is his true type. We call such a mechanism Knightian truthful if, in all its rational plays, every player reports his own true type, if he knows it exactly, and a type in his candidate set, if...

The degree to which engineering and social justice as fields of practice are (in)commensurable remains an open question. To illuminate important dimensions of that question, we explore intersections between those fields and two macro-sociological frameworks. Those theoretical frameworks—structural functionalism and social conflict—represent contrasting perspectives on how society should be orga...

a New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Room 313 South, 52 Washington Street, Rensselaer, NY 12144, United States b Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy, Arizona State University, Mail Code 3220, 500 N. 3rd St. Ste 200, Phoenix, AZ 85004–2135, United States c School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, 135 Western Ave., Albany, NY 12222, United States d School of S...

We present the results of a questionnaire study with Belgian undergraduate students as respondents. We consider the relationship between people’s direct ethical preferences, their preferences behind a veil of ignorance, and their purely individual risk preferences over income distributions. The results reveal that, although there are important similarities between the three types of preferences...