The success of an organization may be dependent on limiting the potential for deviant behaviour, and if necessary, reacting to deviant behaviour in a positive way. 'Managing Organizational Deviance' goes beyond questions of control to also consider ethical dimensions of conduct

Hochtechnologien, wie beispielsweise die Kernkraft oder die grüne Gentechnik, bein-halten vielfältige Gefahren, die häufig zu gesellschaftlichen Konflikten führen. Wäh-rend für manche Bürger die Vorteile überwiegen, empfinden andere die Gefahren als so belastend, dass sie eine Nutzung...

In recent debates, morality or social norms have been proposed as an instrument to reduce conflict behavior. As the argument goes, moral people will not engage in socially not-tolerated behavior or, less so than amoral people. Analyzing this question in the framework of contest theory, we find...

I study the integration of regions in the form of a merger of populations, which I interpret as a revision of people's social space and their comparison set; I illustrate the way in which a merger can aggravate social distress; and I consider policy responses. Specifically, I view the merger of...