Holderness, Clifford G.; Pontiff, Jeffrey - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 10, pp. 1873-1886
generally declines as the hierarchy of a prisoner's group becomes steeper or more closely matches the military's established … hierarchy. There is no evidence that survival is enhanced by being held in more hierarchical groups. One interpretation of these … findings that is consistent with survivors' accounts is that the military's hierarchy was too inflexible to adapt from the …