We analyze corporate ethics programs as control systems, arguing that how control is exercised may have pernicious consequences and be morally problematic. In particular, the control cultivated by ethics programs may weaken employees' ability and motivation to exercise their own moral judgment,...

The role of emotional messages in interpersonal influence is powerful but under-explored in the social influence literatures. In this extended abstract, we propose a connectionist approach and argue that the exchange of emotional messages in social influence encompasses dual processes of...

This paper develops five alternative models for Chinese-American differences in conflict avoiding tendencies, and test them using a scenario study with respondents from Taiwan and the U.S. Our results show that, contrary to expectations, differences in the expected career costs/benefits of...

Negotiation scholars generally model agreement as the terminal "endpoint" of the process. From this perspective, parties instantaneously realize their outcomes when agreement is reached. Although this conception may also reflect the understanding of some negotiators (those with what we call a...

This paper develops an expectancy model for Chinese-American differences in conflict-avoiding, and tests this model using a scenario study with respondents from Taiwan and the US. Our results show that a higher Chinese tendency to avoid conflict is explained by higher Chinese expectations that...