Search Results - subject:"Escalation of commitment"

Achieving organizational de-escalation : exit strategy implementation among United States collegiate athletic departments

Hutchinson, Michael; Bouchet, Adrien - In: Sport management review 17 (2014) 3, pp. 347-361

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The effect of optimism bias on the decision to terminate failing projects

Meyer, Werner G. - In: Project management journal : PMJ 45 (2014) 4, pp. 7-20

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Desire for a positive moral self-regard exacerbates escalation of commitment to initiatives with prosocial aims

Schaumberg, Rebecca L.; Wiltermuth, Scott S. - In: Organizational behavior and human decision processes : … 123 (2014) 2, pp. 110-123

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The impact of sole and joint responsibility on managers' escalation of commitment to unprofitable projects : an experimental investigation

Chong, Vincent K.; Wan, Matt - In: Advances in accounting behavioral research 17 (2014), pp. 31-56

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The influence of sunk costs, personal responsibility and culture on the tendency of accountants to facilitate escalation of commitment

Fukofuka, Peni; Fargher, Neil; Wang, Zhe - In: Pacific accounting review 26 (2014) 3, pp. 374-391

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Identifying escalation of commitment in B2B new product development projects using data envelopment analysis

Donthu, Naveen; Unal, Belgin - In: The journal of business & industrial marketing 29 (2014) 3, pp. 209-214

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How self-justification indirectly drives escalation of commitment : a motivational perspective

Steinkühler, Dominik; Mahlendorf, Matthias D.; … - In: Schmalenbach business review : sbr 66 (2014) 2, pp. 191-222

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A theoretical evaluation and empirical investigation into explanations for the escalation of commitment phenomenon in the particular organisational contexts of Expo 86 and Expo 88

Donohue, Kerry John - 2006

Escalation of commitment to failing investments is considered to be representative of biased forms of decision … theoretical differences are associated with the origin of the concept. Escalation of commitment was conceived in the decision …-dispositional, social and situational influences, which contribute to escalation and de-escalation of commitment. The major research focus …

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The role of project management offices (PMOs) in IS project success and management satisfaction

Ward, John; Daniel, Elizabeth M. - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 26 (2013) 3, pp. 316-336

and has no effect on the overall success rates of those projects. The study draws on ideas of escalation of commitment to …

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Relationship banking and escalating commitments to bad loans

Kang, Eugene; Zardkoohi, Asghar; Paetzold, Ramona; … - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 899-910

The relationship banking literature suggests that business relationships play an important role in the loan decisions of small banks. We test one aspect of this hypothesis using a cross-sectional panel dataset of small banks located in Texas from 1994 to 2002. Our results suggest that small...

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