Publicaties

Social alignment is supported by the brain's reward system (ventral striatum), presumably because attaining synchrony generates feelings of connectedness. However, this may hold only for aligning with generous others, while aligning with selfishness might threaten social connectedness. We investigated this postulated asymmetry in an incentivized fMRI charitable donation task. Participants decided how much of their endowment to donate to real ...

The aging population trend and the associated growing share of older employees lead to high levels of workplace age diversity, which has inspired many researchers to examine the implications. In this paper, we show that the prevalent use of the standard deviation (SD) as age diversity measurement may hinder the field in unraveling the effects of age diversity. While SD is known as an operationalization of age diversity as separation – i.e., the ...

How much influence do CEOs have on corporate social responsibility (CSR)? To answer this question, we apply the CEO in context (CiC) variance partitioning technique to estimate the CEO effect-the amount of the total variance in an outcome measure that can be attributed to CEOs-on CSR. Estimated across the two most widely used data sets of CSR in empirical research, namely KLD and Asset4, we find that CEOs explain about 30% of the total variance ...

The question of what changes when women enter upper-echelons teams has long frustrated upper echelons and gender researchers. We build on the dynamic strategic renewal literature, combine it with upper echelons theory insights, and integrate knowledge about female executives' career strategies to theorize how and when female appointments into top management teams (TMTs) cause firms to change their approach to knowledge-related strategic renewal. ...

Hybrid staffing - i.e., composing a workforce with individuals with oppositional institutional logics - is a strategy organizations can use to navigate through complex institutional environments. We propose that hybrid teams led by individuals with the legitimate logic from the perspective of the target audiences (conformist-led hybrids) will outperform all-conformist, non-hybrid teams, and that hybrid teams led by individuals with the contested ...

Accumulating evidence corroborates that power asymmetries influence how people respond to violations of the equality norm. We investigate with functional magnetic resonance imaging how preferences for advantageous (receiving more than other) and disadvantageous (receiving less than other) inequality are affected by having social power and whether or not this differs according to an individual's social value orientation. Forty participants were ...

Little is known about when and where hybrid organizations diffuse. We argue that neo-institutional perspectives, which stress the constraining role of market categories and institutional logics, have to be complemented with demand-side perspectives that stress the enabling force of economic incentives to explain the origins of hybrids. We develop theory to predict the country-level diffusion of hybrid forms in Islamic banking in the 1975-2017 ...

In this study, we explore how top executives affect the well-being of multiple stakeholders and long-run organizational outcomes. In the context of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), we examine how CEO greed impacts firms' stance toward corporate social responsibility (CSR) prior to the onset of the GFC and how this, in turn, shapes firms' fate during and after the GFC. We argue that CEO greed will be negatively associated with CSR, because ...

An influential 2005 study by Kosfeld et al. suggested that oxytocin increases trust in strangers. This registered replication study by some of the original authors found no effect of oxytocin on trusting behaviour under the same conditions. In an influential paper, Kosfeld et al. (2005) showed that intranasal administration of oxytocin (OT) increases the transfers made by investors in the trust game-suggesting that OT increases trust in ...