Enacting sabotage in siblings’ conflicts: Desired objects and deceptive bodies

Young Adolescents’ Conflicts with Siblings and Friends

Experimentalizing the organization of objects: Re-enacting mines and landfills

In this paper we draw upon “After-ANT” scholarship to generate openings for a shift from purely deconstructive studies of object organization to a more straightforward generation of concrete and specific alternative trajectories towards the future by way of ontological experimentation. Through careful empirical investigation of a mine and a landfill, and how these are enacted in practice in dif...

Self - Sabotage ∗

We analyze the incentives of a vertically-integrated producer (VIP) to engage in “self-sabotage”. Self-sabotage occurs when a VIP intentionally increases its upstream costs and/or reduces the quality of its upstream product. We identify conditions under which self-sabotage is profitable for the VIP even though it raises symmetrically the cost of the upstream product to all downstream producers ...

Cognitive conflicts in major depression: Between desired change and personal coherence

OBJECTIVES The notion of intrapsychic conflict has been present in psychopathology for more than a century within different theoretical orientations. However, internal conflicts have not received enough empirical attention, nor has their importance in depression been fully elaborated. This study is based on the notion of cognitive conflict, understood as implicative dilemma (ID), and on a new w...

Sabotage in Promotion Tournaments

This article studies the nature, determinants, and impact of “negative” activities in organizations. In competing for promotion, the members in organizations can work not only to enhance their own performances, but also to “sabotage” their opponent’s performances. It is worthwhile for them to engage in negative activities because promotion is generally based on relative, rather than absolute, p...