Although indispensable for long-term economic growth, organizational changes are usually met with resistance. This article draws on psychological theories and empirical evidence to highlight why and under what conditions changes lead to resistance and what likely consequences of resistance are....

Der Sunk-Cost-Effekt beschreibt die irrationale Tendenz, Entscheidungen über die Fortsetzung eines Unterfangens oder die Nutzung einer Sache davon abhängig zu machen, ob und in welchem Umfang hierfür bereits versunkene Kosten entstanden sind. Dieses kann in der Praxis kostspielige...

The present thesis investigates social learning processes in quantitative estimation tasks with a focus on two different social contexts. The first part concentrates on interacting groups and examines G-I transfer, which denotes an increase in individual performance due to group interaction, for...

Six experiments investigated how the distance between one's initial opinion and advice relates to advice utilization. Going beyond previous research, we relate advice distance to both relative adjustments and absolute adjustments towards the advice, and we also investigate a second mode of...

CEOs have been argued to play a critical role for organizational performance. However, CEOs cannot achieve success singlehandedly. They rely on other organizational members to execute and implement their agenda and to contribute to organizational success. In the present research, we propose that...

Unternehmenskultur ist ein interdisziplinärer Begriff. Einerseits findet er Anwendung im Rahmen der Organisationsforschung und im Zusammenhang mit betriebswirtschaftlicher Betrachtung, andererseits enthält er aber auch Anklänge an Soziologie, Anthropologie, Ethnologie, Psychologie und...