How does opportunistic behavior influence firm size? An evolutionary approach to organizational behavior

How Does Opportunistic Behavior Influence Firm Size

This paper relates firm size and opportunism by showing that, given certain behavioral dispositions of humans, the size of a profit-maximizing firm can be determined by cognitive aspects underlying firminternal cultural transmission processes. We argue that what firms do better than markets – besides economizing on transaction costs – is to establish a cooperative regime among its employees tha...

How Does Corporate Ethics Contribute to Firm Financial Performance? The Mediating Role of Collective Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

http://jom.sagepub.com/content/39/4/853 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0149206311419662 2013 39: 853 originally published online 1 September 2011 Journal of Management Jinseok S. Chun, Yuhyung Shin, Jin Nam Choi and Min Soo Kim Citizenship Behavior Mediating Role of Collective Organizational Commitment and Organizational How Does Corporate Ethics Contribute to ...

Persistance of Firm Innovative Behavior: Towards an Evolutionary Theory

Fundamental motives: How evolutionary needs influence consumer behavior

Can we better understand modern consumer behavior by examining its links to our ancestral past? We consider the underlying motives for consumption and choice from an evolutionary perspective. We review evidence that deep-seated evolutionary motives continue to influence much modern behavior, albeit not always in obvious or conscious ways. These fundamental motives include: (1) evading physical ...

How Does Social Context Influence Our Brain and Behavior?

1Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 4Faculty of Education, National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), Mendoza, Arg...