We examined a central assumption of recent theories: that social utility is contingent on impressions of other people. We manipulated participants’ impression of the other player in a prisoners’ dilemma. We then measured participants’ own preferences in the PD, their estimates of the other player’s preferences in the PD, their prediction of the other player’s move, and their own move. We hypoth...

A general method is provided whereby bizarre revisions of consistent theories with respect to contingent sentences that they refute can be delivered by revision-functions satisfying both the basic and the supplementary postulates of the y4GM-theory of theory-revision. ?

How should we evaluate public policies or projects that are intended to reduce the likelihood or potential impact of a catastrophic event? Examples might include a greenhouse gas abatement policy to avert a climate change catastrophe, or the construction of levees to avert major flooding. Projects that reduce the likelihood or potential impact of catastrophic events are essentially out-of-the-m...

This paper develops and tests a multi-level organization contingency theory for designing headquarters-subsidiary relations. We use frontier analysis to overcome problems that have hampered advancements in organizational contingency theory in general, and headquarters-subsidiary relationships in particular. Based on a longitudinal study of a large medical group practice of 32 local community cl...

This paper offers a critique of existing ways of understandingmanagement practice in International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs) and compares and contrasts these with insights drawn from the complexity sciences. The authors put forward a more radical interpretation of complexity theory as it might be taken up in organisations rather than suggesting that it can be accommodated with existi...

Coordination – commonly defined as the achievement of concerted action has been a phenomenon of central concern to organizational theorizing since the 1920s. Until the 1980s, information processing and contingency theorists have shaped coordination theory around the relationship between coordination mechanisms and drivers like task dependence, uncertainty, and equivocality. Recently, conceptual...

We describe an algorithm for the sequential sampling of entries in multiway contingency tables with given constraints. The algorithm can be used for computations in exact conditional inference. To justify the algorithm, a theory relates sampling values at each step to properties of the associated toric ideal using computational commutative algebra. In particular, the property of interval cell c...