This special issue explores ethnic privileges in the context of work, organization and management from varied methodological and theoretical traditions, and across different international contexts and disparate fields. They all have strong theoretical and practical implications, developing...

Using college student samples, two studies were conducted to validate the Chinese version of the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) Scale. The results replicated important findings reported by Weber et al. (2002) in the Chinese culture. Risk-taking and risk perception were domain-specific,...

We call a product customizable if some of its attributes can be adjusted by buyers after purchase. In this paper, we study a market in which the seller(s) exerts cognitive efforts to find the optimal product design, and retains the option to make the product customizable for buyers to adjust...

We study a bilateral trade environment in which a seller exerts cognitive efforts to identify the optimal product design for a buyer. Should the seller fail to discover the innovative design, he has the option to induce additional cognition from the buyer by making the product flexible at an...