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Are Workers More Likely to be Deviant than Managers? A Cross-National Analysis

Chen, Chung-wen - In: Journal of Business Ethics 123 (2014) 2, pp. 221-233

Using Robert Merton’s perspective on social structure [Social theory and structure. Free Press, New York, 1968], this … study tested the individual-level association between job position and ethical reasoning. Anomie theory was employed to … theory. Northeastern University Press, Boston, <CitationRef CitationID="CR59">1997</CitationRef>)] are mutually complementary …

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The Emergence of Social Structure: Employer Information Networks in an Experimental Labor Market

Gerxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Social Networks (2013). Volume 35, issue 4, pages 541-560. We use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the trustworthiness of job candidates, when worker opportunism is...

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Limited Information Aggregation and Externalities - A Simple Model of Metastable Market

Gong, Zheng; Tian, Feng; Xu, Boyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We analyze a model in which agents’ decisions to enter or exit investments are influenced from their individual and external parties’ transaction histories. Actual investment outcomes are unknown to all participants until the end of decision periods, but outcomes do change depending on the...

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China's ethnic minorities and the middle classes: an overview

Mackerras, Colin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) September, pp. 814-826

Purpose – The paper aims to discover the role of the middle classes in the development of the ethnic minorities of China, given the importance of the middle classes in international economic development in the modern age. Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a definition of the...

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Preliminary discussions on the urbanization of rural areas in modern Iran

Suzuki, Hitoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In this translation draft of the first part of the author's recently-published book in Japanese, entitled as "Rural-cities in Contemporary Iran: Revolution, War and the Structural Changes in the Rural Society," we are presenting the preliminary discussions on Iranian middle-sized cities and...

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Does Society Matter? Life Satisfaction in the Enlarged Europe

Böhnke, Petra - In: Social Indicators Research 87 (2008) 2, pp. 189-210

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The desocialising of economic theory

Jackson, William A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 809-825

Purpose – The paper aims to show that economic theory has become “desocialised” and separated from social theory … traces how the social content of economic theory has diminished, considering the reasons why. This leads on to a wider … the desire for boundaries between academic disciplines, which drove economics towards individualism and other social …

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Social structures and speeding trucks

Faia, Michael A. - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 51 (2000) 5, pp. 529-545

This study develops a Maple worksheet for experimenting with truck transportation, with incentives for speeding, and with the efficacy of various ways of controlling speeding. The model suggests that the total cost function, operating as a feedback mechanism, may influence a truck driver’s...

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Walter Eucken als Klassiker der Ordnungsethik – Eine ordonomische Rekonstruktion (Walter Eucken as a classical contributor to the ethics of constitutional order – An ordonomic inte...

Pies, Ingo - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 12 (2011) 2, pp. 222-249

Die ordonomische These, dass man von Walter Eucken als einem Klassiker der Ordnungsethik auch heute noch wichtige Lektionen lernen kann, wird in diesem Beitrag in fuenf Schritten entwickelt. Der erste Argumentationsschritt identifiziert einige Rezeptionsschwierigkeiten, die einem angemessenen...

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The Socially Stable Core in Structured Transferable Utility Games

Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; Laan, Gerard van der; Talman, Dolf - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

We consider cooperative games with transferable utility (TU-games), in which we allow for a social structure on the set of players. The social structure is utilized to refine the core of the game. For every coalition the relative strength of a player within that coalition is induced by the...

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