Hansson, Magnus; Wigblad, Rune - In: Scandinavian Journal of Management 22 (2006) 2, pp. 120-137
In this paper, we explore the thesis that a threat to the vital interests of an entity, be it a single individual or a group, will lead to productivity increases in a variety of forms. We argue that because threat was present in the Hawthorne experiments, the adoption of a decline perspective is...