Purpose – The authors explore employees’ emotions during a structural change (merging departments) in the higher education sector. The purposes of this paper are to identify how employees’ perceptions shape their emotional responses toward organizational change; and the variation of...

Dietrich and List (2012) enrich the standard model of choice by explicitly modeling a decision maker's mental state. They assume that a change in mental state either induces a change in preferences, or alternatively, a change in the decision maker's perception of the choice problem. This paper...