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(2010): The cost of a lack of decorum, integrity and transparency in service entrepreneurial contexts. In: SERVICE BUSINESS 4 (2), S. 167-176
Abstract: This article shows the results of a study whose objective is to identify aspects considered as explanatory variables, which evolve alongside levels of corruption and to analyse the direction of the variation with each explained variable, through the use of multiple regression methodology. Once these variables and the statistical significance of their variations have been identified the cost of, the lack of decorum, integrity and transparency, corruption is deduced. The variables are grouped into those where growth is associated with greater or lower levels of corruption, which will warn of the effect the services sector has on the GDP (GDP in%).
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(2000): A Cross-Cultural Study on Escalation of Commitment Behavior in Software Projects. In: MIS Quarterly 24 (2). DOI: 10.2307/3250940
Abstract: One of the most challenging decisions that a manager must confront is whether to continue or abandon a troubled project. Published studies suggest that failing software projects are often allowed to continue for too long before appropriate management action is taken to discontinue or redirect the efforts. The level of sunk cost associated with such projects has been offered as one explanation for this escalation of commitment behavior. What prior studies fail to consider is how concepts from risk-taking theory (such as risk propensity and risk perception) affect decision makers' willingness to continue a project under conditions of sunk cost. To better understand factors that may cause decision makers to continue such projects, this study examines the level of sunk cost together with the risk propensity and risk perception of decision makers. These factors are assessed for cross-cultural robustness using matching laboratory experiments carried out in three cultures (Finland, the Netherlands, and Singapore). With a wider set of explanatory factors than prior studies, we could account fora higher amount of variance in decision makers' willingness to continue a project. The level of sunk cost and the risk perception of decision makers contributed significantly to their willingness to continue a project. Moreover, the risk propensity of decision makers was inversely related to risk perception. This inverse relationship was significantly stronger in Singapore (a low uncertainty avoidance culture) than in Finland and the Netherlands (high uncertainty avoidance cultures). These results reveal that some factors behind decision makers' willingness to continue a project am consistent across cultures while others may be culture-sensitive. Implications of these results for further research and practice are discussed.
Keywords: Business Studies, culture sensitive, DE-ESCALATION, DETERMINANTS, Disziplin, Einfluss von wirtschaftlichen/finanziellen Konsequenzen, entscheiden, escalation of commitment behavior, FRAMEWORK, Information, INVOLVEMENT, Kultur, Kulturtheorie, Management, risk perception, risk propensity, Risk-Taking, software project management, STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS, sunk cost, SUNK COSTS
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