Leadership and Behavioral Decision-making

Deciding to leave a job and actually leaving it are not the same thing. Whether the intention to quit translates into real turnover behavior—known as the turnover intention–behavior link—is strongly affected by cultural values, find HKUST researcher Kin Fai Ellick Wong and a colleague. Their research answers a question that has long plagued organizations: if ... Read More

The behavioural approach to organization and decision making argues that negative feedback regarding a choice deters someone from doing the same thing again. That is, decisions should be guided by the law-of-effect—a concept central to adaptive learning. On the other hand, escalation research shows that decision makers often continue or reinforce their ... Read More

Managers and scholars alike are keen to understand the factors that affect individual acceptance and use of new technology. A lot of research has been done in this field and, while the many ideas have been unified into a single theory that can fairly reliably predict people’s behaviour towards new technology, it has mostly focused on employees at work. But ... Read More