Self-Regulation and Regulatory Flexibility: Why Firms May Be Reluctant to Signal Green

Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited.

Self-control refers to the mental processes that allow people to override thoughts and emotions, thus enabling behavior to vary adaptively from moment to moment. Dominating contemporary research on this topic is the viewpoint that self-control relies upon a limited resource, such that engaging in acts of restraint depletes this inner capacity and undermines subsequent attempts at control (i.e.,...

Why people are reluctant to tempt fate.

The present research explored the belief that it is bad luck to "tempt fate." Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated that people do indeed have the intuition that actions that tempt fate increase the likelihood of negative outcomes. Studies 3-6 examined our claim that the intuition is due, in large part, to the combination of the automatic tendencies to attend to negative prospects and to use accessibili...

Reluctant reviewers? Publons may help

Nursing Open continues to grow, submissions are frequent and regular, and we are putting ever larger issues online. Naturally, the volume of submissions to Nursing Open does not match those to my other journal JAN, but the latter is long established, has a relatively high impact factor and an international reputation. Nursing Open is still new and along with growing the volume of submissions an...

Why Do Firms Adopt Green Design?: Organizational Opportunity, Organizational Resources, Costs, or Regulation

This paper evaluates four explanations for industrial facilities' incorporation of environmental considerations in their product designs (i.e., "green design"): organizational opportunity, organizational resources, cost reduction, and environmental regulatory pressure. Initial analyses of facility-level workplace practice and environmental data support all four explanations. Facilities vigorous...

Why Even Good Defenses May be Bad