Groups use procedural structures to organize their efforts in meetings. These structures are affected by group members’ preferences for the degree of procedural order they want in a meeting, as well as by the communication media available in the meeting environment. Analysis of thirty partially distributed experimental groups that met over a series of four sessions was conducted by using two me...

Fraud is an ancient crime and one that annually causes hundreds of billions of dollars in losses. We examine the behavioral patterns over time of different types of frauds, which illustrate cyclical frequencies. We develop an evolutionary theory that suggests cyclic behavior in frauds should be common. JEL classifications: D92, L15, P17

A crisis can involve multiple organizations during high pressure events, and it is up to the Command & Control (C2) unit to provide direction and coordination for the response (Brehmer, 2006). Hard as this problem is, there is still no ‘one-solution’. Dissimilar organizations with very different methods seem to be able to master the problem. This paper presents the initial development of a new ...

Multiplayer online baŠle arena has become a popular game genre. It also received increasing aŠention from our research community because they provide a wealth of information about human interactions and behaviors. A major problem is extracting meaningful paŠerns of activity from this type of data, in a way that is also easy to interpret. Here, we propose to exploit tensor decomposition techniqu...

This corpus study addresses the question of the nature and the structure of antonymy and synonymy in language use, following automatic methods to identify their behavioral patterns in texts. We examine the conceptual closeness/distance of synonyms and antonyms through the lens of their DOMAIN instantiations.

We design a new variation on the picalculus, πcost, in which the use of channels or resources must be paid for. Processes operate relative to a cost environment, and communications can only happen if principals have provided sufficient funds for the channels associated with the communications. We define a bisimulation-based behavioural preorder in which two processes are related if, intuitively...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.08.004 0003-3472/© 2014 The Association for the Study of A In this review, we explore the extent to which the recent evidence for conformity in nonhuman animals may alternatively be explained by the animals' preference for social information regardless of the number of individuals demonstrating the respective behaviour. Conformity as a research topic ori...

Changes in customer’s behavioural patterns, rapid technological development and increasing competition are just some of the reason to why changes in organisations’ environment are occurring more frequently. Forming and realizing new strategies then become a central concern for most organisations. However, even though organisations are constantly working with these issues today, 50-70% of new st...