The proposal examines the long-term financial impact of Enterprise Systems (ES) on firm performance and the role of top management on this impact. A unique methodology based on recent accounting research is proposed to measure the contribution of ES to long-term financial performance. The proposal borrows from strategic management literature to examine the relationship between such contribution...

Just as nothing can last forever, people die. However, people die in different ways, for different reasons, and in different situations. While previous research based on Terror Management Theory (TMT) argues that Mortality Salience drives individuals to make different behavioral choices than they otherwise would (for example, previous research has identified Mortality Salience as an antecedent ...

The authors hypothesized, on the basis of terror management theory and cognitive-experiential self-theory, that participants in an experiential mode of thinking would respond to mortality salience with increased worldview defense and increased accessibility of death-related thoughts, whereas participants in a rational mode would not. Results from 3 studies provided convergent evidence that when...

The widespread prevalence of ageism is a pressing issue in today’s society, as it is expected that elderly individuals will make up 20 % of the population of the United States by 2030. The present study sought to empirically examine the origins of ageism from two theoretical perspectives: terror management theory and social development theory. College students (N = 206) were surveyed regarding ...

Research based on terror management theory (TMT) has consistently found that reminders to individuals about their mortality engender responses aimed at shoring up faith in their cultural belief system. Previous studies have focused on the critical role that the accessibility of death-related thought plays in these effects. Moreover, it has been shown that these effects occur even when death-rel...

The terrorist attacks of 9/11, and subsequent terrorist acts around the world, have alerted social psychologists to the need to examine the antecedents and consequences of terrorist threat perception. In these two studies we examined the predictive power of demographic factors (age, sex, location), individual values and normative influences on threat perception and the consequences of this perc...

According to I–D compensation theory, the occurrence of several social psychological phenomena (e.g., ego-defense, terror management) is moderated by the status of a person’s relationship with the environment. More specifically, the theory proposes that individuals function optimally when they receive frequent feedback that they are progressing toward their goals and that their efforts will pay...

Previous works on the Terror management theory (TMT) have shown that thoughts of one’s own death provoke avoidance of the self-focused state and that self-esteem could buffer the deeply rooted anxiety and fear of death. However, surprisingly little research has examined this issue directly. In Study 1, we investigated 112 healthy adults who completed two explicit self-face processing tasks. Hig...