Anti-social behaviours are costly to organizations, and the ability to identify predictors of such behaviours can be valuable. In this paper, we used a within-subjects laboratory design to study choices in the well-known (hypothetical) Trolley problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning...

This study examined social system failures and sought to identify a plausible mechanism behind these failures. Stretched exponential distributions were observed for failure of marriages in the US, UK, and Germany. In addition, the study provides evidence of power laws in the failure of large...

The main objective of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of trust issues within organizations to expand and refine theoretical constructs. Trust is approached in the economic perspective as a social mechanism for management. We seek to understand the role of trust in the...