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Behavioral Theory (behavioral + theory)
Selected AbstractsA transaction cost perspective on why, how, and when cash impacts firm performanceMANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS, Issue 7 2009Jonathan P. O'Brien While both financial and behavioral theories suggest that cash holdings may be beneficial to R&D-intensive firms, agency theory would suggest that strong monitoring may be needed to ensure that cash holdings are not squandered. We contend that transaction cost economics provides a valuable lens for understanding the performance implications of cash holdings because not only does it explicate the benefits and costs of cash holdings in a single unified theoretical framework, but it further clarifies how environmental uncertainty critically moderates these relationships. Empirical tests on a large sample of US corporations yield strong support for our theory. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The Living Tree of Nursing TheoriesNURSING FORUM, Issue 3 2003Charlotte Tourville RN TOPIC Three behavioral theories have been used to develop major nursing theories: interactive, systems, and developmental. PURPOSE To provide a symbolic image as a framework for nurses to visualize the multitude of nursing theories starting with the first nurse theorist, Florence Nightingale. SOURCES Published research articles, authors' experience, educational classes and workshops. CONCLUSIONS The Living Tree helps organize various nursing theories so a nurse can apply the theories to practice. [source] Marktdesign und Experimentelle WirtschaftsforschungPERSPEKTIVEN DER WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK, Issue 2009Axel Ockenfels Institutions matter because they affect incentives, and decision makers respond to incentives. Yet, they do not always do so rationally. Experimental economics complements economic theory by observing the performance of mechanisms in the context of actual decision processes faced by real people. It also answers questions that cannot be answered by theory and field data, tests hypotheses and identifies causalities suggested by theory and field observations, collects facts and phenomena that may stimulate behavioral theories of market design, eases cross-disciplinary cooperation, and communicates economic research to market participants, managers and other real-world decision makers. This article presents selected examples to illustrate how experimental economics may interplay with the more traditional economic toolbox to promote economic engineering both in research and in practice. [source] Taking Stock of Corporate Governance Research While Looking to the FutureCORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Issue 3 2009Igor Filatotchev ABSTRACT Manuscript Type: Editorial Research Question/Issue: This essay identifies some key issues for the analysis of corporate governance based on the articles within this special review issue coupled with our own perspectives. Our aim in this issue is to distil some research streams in the field and identify opportunities for future research. Research Findings/Results: We summarize the eight papers included in this special issue and briefly highlight their main contributions to the literature which collectively deal with the role and impact of corporate boards, codes of corporate governance, and the globalization of corporate governance systems. In addition to the new insights offered by these reviews, we attempt to offer our own ideas on where future research needs to be targeted. Theoretical Implications: We highlight a number of research themes where future governance research may prove fruitful. This includes taking a more holistic approach to corporate governance issues and developing an inter-disciplinary perspective by building on agency theory while considering the rich new insights offered by complementary theories, such as behavioral theory, institutional theory and the resource-based views of the firm. In particular, future corporate governance research needs to be conducted in multiple countries, particularly in emerging economies, if we want to move closer to the journal's aim of producing a global theory of corporate governance. Practical Implications: Our analysis suggests that analytic and regulatory approaches to corporate governance issues should move from a "one-size-fits-all" template to taking into account organizational, institutional and national contexts. [source] Plaud on Ilardi and FeldmanJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 9 2001Joseph J. Plaud A cultural analysis is given to the premise that clinical psychology is a discipline of theoretical fragmentation. It is argued that the discipline will achieve paradigmatic status as an applied science by reestablishing the link between behavioral theory and clinical applications. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 57: 1109,1111, 2001. [source] Organizing intelligence: Development of behavioral science and the research based model of business educationJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2009William P. Bottom Conventional history of the predominant, research-based model of business education (RBM) traces its origins to programs initiated by the Ford Foundation after World War II. This paper maps the elite network responsible for developing behavioral science and the Ford Foundation agenda. Archival records of the actions taken by central nodes in the network permit identification of the original vision statement for the model. Analysis also permits tracking progress toward realizing that vision over several decades. Behavioral science was married to business education from the earliest stages of development. The RBM was a fundamental promise made by advocates for social science funding. Appraisals of the model and recommendations for reform must address its full history, not the partial, distorted view that is the conventional account. Implications of this more complete history for business education and for behavioral theory are considered. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Francis bacon's behavioral psychologyJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2007Paul S. Macdonald Francis Bacon offers two accounts of the nature and function of the human mind: one is a medical-physical account of the composition and operation of spirits specific to human beings, the other is a behavioral account of the character and activities of individual persons. The medical-physical account is a run-of-the-mill version of the late Renaissance model of elemental constituents and humoral temperaments. The other, less well-known, behavioral account represents an unusual position in early modern philosophy. This theory espouses a form of behavioral psychology according to which (a) supposed mental properties are "hidden forms" best described in dispositional terms, (b) the true character of an individual can be discovered in his observable behavior, and (c) an "informed" understanding of these properties permits the prediction and control of human behavior. Both of Bacon's theories of human nature fall under his general notion of systematic science: his medical-physical theory of vital spirits is theoretical natural philosophy and his behavioral theory of disposition and expression is operative natural philosophy. Because natural philosophy as a whole is "the inquiry of causes and the production of effects," knowledge of human nature falls under the same two-part definition. It is an inquisition of forms that pertains to the patterns of minute motions in the vital spirits and the production of effects that pertains both to the way these hidden motions produce behavioral effects and to the way in which a skillful agent is able to produce desired effects in other persons' behavior. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Gregory Bateson on deutero-learning and double bind: A brief conceptual historyJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2003Max Visser Ph.D. assistant professor The concepts of deutero-learning and double bind have acquired an increasingly important status in various fields of social and behavioral science, particularly in psychiatry, psychotherapy, organization, and policy science. With this proliferation, however, their original meaning and significance has become increasingly muted. In this article it is argued that both concepts are important ingredients of a behavioral theory of (organizational) learning. To support this argument, the development of both concepts is traced to the work of Gregory Bateson. In Bateson's thinking, the two concepts have a firm base in dyadic behavior and interaction. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] | |||||||||||||