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Climate Change as a Cultural and Behavioral Issue: Addressing Barriers and Implementing Solutions
(2010-07)
At the core, environmental issues like climate change are not primarily technological or economic, but behavioral and cultural. While technological and economic activity may be the direct cause of environmentally destructive ...
The Culture and Discourse of Climate Skepticism
(2010-11)
Working paper abstract (100-250 words): While the scientific, technical and policy components of the climate change issue are of critical importance, climate change is also a cultural issue. More importantly, it is a highly ...
The BP Oil Spill as a Cultural Anomaly? Institutional Context, Conflict and Change
(2010-10)
This paper argues that the BP Oil Spill is, potentially, a "cultural anomaly" for institutional changes in environmental management and fossil fuel production. The problem as defined by the spill’s context, the potential ...
Governance and Corruption Constraints: The Business Ethics Glass Ceiling in Middle East Corporate Governance
(2010-04)
This paper argues for a model of a corruption constraint on organizational growth and development in the form of a business ethics glass ceiling. Although the problem of corruption‘s negative impact on economic growth is ...
Dynamic Pricing of Limited Inventories When Customers Negotiate
(2010-08)
Although take-it-or-leave-it pricing is the main mode of operation for many retailers, a number of retailers discreetly allow price negotiation when some haggle-prone customers ask for a bargain. At these retailers, the ...
Using Proactive Law for Competitive Advantage
(2010-08)
In recent years, legal scholars in the United States and Europe have explored aspects of legal strategy relating to competitive advantage and the role of law as a positive force within companies. In the United States, the ...
Conversations with Supply Chain Managers
(2010-04)
This paper documents the process of supply chain formation to bring a new product to market, based on phone and personal interviews with supply chain professionals and consultants from a range of industries including but ...
Breaking up is Hard to Do: Determinants of Cartel Duration
(2010-09)
We estimate the impact of cartel organizational features, as well as macroeconomic fluctuations and industry structure, on cartel duration using a dataset of contemporary international cartels. We estimate a proportional ...
Challenges in Marketing Socially Useful Goods to the Poor
(2010-02)
Market based solutions to alleviate poverty have become increasingly popular in recent years. Unfortunately, there are very few examples of profitable businesses that market socially useful goods in low-income markets and ...
Positive Deviance for a Sustainable World: Linking Sustainability and Positive Organizational Scholarship
(2010-04)
This chapter examines the linkages between the positive organizational scholarship (POS) and the sustainability research domains, examining ways in which each domain can enrich the other, their mutual research agendas, and ...