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How Embodied Cognitions Affect Judgments: Height-Related Attribution Bias in Football Foul Calls
Quaquebeke, N. van; Giessner, S.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2010
concepts of strength, power, and aggression, we argue that height is going to be one of the decision cues used. As a result …, as well as the last three FIFA World Cups, but also in two experimental studies. The resulting dilemma for refereeing in …
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High in the Hierarchy: How Vertical Location and Judgments of Leaders' Power are Interrelated
Giessner, Giessner, S.R.; Schubert, Schubert, T.W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Leadership implies power. We argue, from a social embodiment perspective, that thinking about power involves mental … simulations of vertical location. Three studies tested whether judgments of leaders’ power and information on a vertical location … are interrelated. In Studies 1a-c, participants judged a leader's power after being presented with, among other …
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Information Sharing, Cognitive Centrality, and Influence Among Business Executives During Collective Choice
Abele, Susanne; Stasser, Garold; Vaughan-Parsons, Sandra I. - 2006
Laboratory studies have shown that decision-making groups tend to focus on common information at the expense of unique information. In the current study, high level business executives completed a personnel selection task. Access to information about the candidates was not controlled as in a...
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Organization Theory: Bright Prospects for a Permanently Failing Field
Heugens, Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
Organization theory is a paradoxical field of scientific inquiry. It has struggled for more than fifty years to develop a unified theory of organizational effectiveness under girded by a coherent set of assumptions, and it has thus far failed to produce one. Yet, by other standards it is...
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Understanding Diversity
van Knippenberg, van Knippenberg, D.L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Daan van Knippenberg is Professor of Organizational Behavior at RSM Erasmus University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include work group performance, especially work group diversity and group decision making, leadership, in particular the roles of self and...
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Performance Management: A model and research agenda
den Hartog, den Hartog, D.N.; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
Performance Management deals with the challenge organizations face in defining, measuring and stimulating employee performance with the ultimate goal to improve organizational performance. Thus, Performance Management involves multiple levels of analysis and is clearly linked to the topics...
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The Optimal Prediction Simultaneous Equations Selection
Gorobets, Gorobets, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
This paper presents a method for selection of the optimal simultaneous equation system from a set of nested models under the condition of a small sample. The purpose of selection is to identify a model with the best prognostic possibilities. Multivariate AIC, BIC and AICC are used as the...
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Unity through Diversity: Value-in-Diversity Beliefs, Work Group Diversity, and Group Identification
van Knippenberg, van Knippenberg, D.L.; Haslam, Haslam, S.A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Research on work group diversity has more or less neglected the possibility that reactions to diversity may be informed by individuals' beliefs about the value of diversity (vs. homogeneity) for their work group. We studied the role of such diversity beliefs as a moderator of the relationship...
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Plural Form in Franchising: An Incomplete Contracting Approach
Hendrikse, Hendrikse, G.W.J.; Jiang, Jiang, T. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005
because the power allocated to independent franchisees makes them confident that they will be able to recoup their investments …
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Two Lighthouses to Navigate: Effects of Ideal and Counter-Ideal Values on Follower Identification and Satisfaction with their Leaders
van Quaquebeke, van Quaquebeke, N.; Kerschreiter, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
Ideals (or ideal values) help people to navigate in social life. They indicate at a very fundamental level what people are concerned about, what they strive for, and what they want to be affiliated with. Transferring this to a leader-follower analysis, our first Study (N = 306) confirms that...
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