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Introduction
Matt's research interest is conflict management with particular interest in interdependent decision making (such as social dilemmas, negotiation, and coordination tasks), competitive decision making (such as auctions), and relationship repair at various levels and contexts of organization.
His projects entail facilitating cooperation in social dilemmas and economic / practical significance of organization science and specific domains of interdependent decision making; e.g., social dilemmas.
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August 2005 - August 2009
September 2015 - July 2016
August 2009 - May 2013
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In this article, we assess whether actors provide makeup calls as amends for their wrongdoing following bad calls. We examined these effects using organizational justice as a lens. Two archival data sets from Major League Baseball and financial analysts (Study 1 and Study 3), one experimental data set (Study 2), and one mixed-method data set from a...
The study of intragroup dynamics in management studies views conflict as a contingency process that can benefit or harm a group based of characteristics of the group and context. We review five models of intragroup conflict in management studies. These models include diversity-conflict and behavioral negotiation models that focus primarily on confl...
We study the practice of self-control in an organizational social dilemma when the stakes are large, using 47 years of vital census data from 18th century Sweden. From 1750 to 1800, eighty percent of Sweden lived in a simple-structure organization called a bytvång or village commons. The amount of resources a village family received was a function...
We study three triggers of conflict and explore their resultant emotional reactions in a laboratory experiment. Economists suggest that the primary trigger of conflict is monetary incentives. Social psychologists suggest that conflicts are often triggered by fear. Finally, evolutionary biologists suggest that a third trigger is uncertainty about an...
We study three triggers of conflict and explore their resultant emotional reactions in a laboratory experiment. Economists suggest that the primary trigger of conflict is monetary incentives. Social psychologists suggest that conflicts are often triggered by fear. Finally, evolutionary biologists suggest that a third trigger is uncertainty about an...
A burgeoning problem facing organizations is the loss of workgroup productivity due to cyberloafing. The current paper examines how changes in the decision-making rights about what workgroup members can do on the job affect cyberloafing and subsequent work productivity. We compare two different types of decision-making regimes: autocratic decision-...
Purpose
The relational view posits that supply chain integration can be a source of competitive advantage. Few firms, however, successfully co-create value to attain supernormal relational rents. We therefore elaborate theory regarding the reasons why collaboration strategies fail.
Design/methodology/approach
This study employs a quasi-longitudinal...
Reward choice – employees' ability to exercise control over the formal rewards they receive from work – is an important part of many HRM strategies. Reward choice is expected to increase employee performance, but conflicting findings highlight the need to better understand how and when it will do so. Based on fairness heuristic theory, we predicted...
The current social dilemma literature lacks theoretical consensus regarding how individuals behave when facing multiple simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members....
The current social dilemma literature lacks theoretical consensus regarding how individuals behave when facing multiple simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members....
Since its inception, organization science has been interested in understanding the practical significance that a theoretical finding has on organizational behavior. Practical significance is the idea of understanding the costs and benefits to an organization (and its members) for accepting the hypotheses of a theory to be correct. However, most org...
Eminent domain is widely considered a necessary tool to avoid seller holdout and ensure efficient land assembly. We conduct a series of laboratory experiments that challenge this conventional wisdom. We find that when there is no competition and no eminent domain, land assembly suffers from costly delay and failed assembly, resulting in participant...
The public–private partnership (PPP) is a popular strategy for creating global sustainable value. However, many PPPs struggle to realize their value-added potential. Why do some public–private partnerships succeed while others fail, and how may those struggling succeed? Combining supply-chain integration and social dilemma perspectives into the con...
A common finding in social sciences is that member change hinders group functioning and performance. However, questions remain as to why member change negatively affects group performance and what are some ways to alleviate the negative effects of member change on performance? To answer these questions we conduct an experiment in which we investiga...
It is common in organizational life to be simultaneously involved in multiple collective actions. These collective actions may be modeled using public good dilemmas. The developing social dilemma literature has two perspectives – the “divided loyalties” and “conditional cooperation” perspectives – that give opposite predictions about how individual...
We investigate how third-party advice on the estimated value of a public good acts as a dual-uncertainty reducing mechanism to encourage cooperation in a trust-social dilemma. Experiment 1 finds that the valence of an advisor’s estimate affects cooperation behavior and that this advice effect is mediated by the level of trust that an individual has...
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are a popular strategy for achieving global sustainable value creation through collective action. However, many public-private partnerships struggle to realize their value added potential. Why do some public-private partnerships succeed while others fail? Combining supply-chain integration and social dilemma persp...
We investigate a new give-or-take-some (GOTS) dilemma paradigm that merges traditional give-some and take-some dilemmas. In this hybrid social dilemma, individuals can choose to give or to take resources from a shared resource pool. Previous empirical work by McCarter, Budescu, and Scheffran (2011) found that the composition of the group and the in...
We investigate how trust among group members and subsequent cooperation, when facing a social dilemma, is affected by newcomers. Study 1 found that the presence of newcomers negatively affected the trust level among incumbent group members, and this decrease impacted cooperation in the group and was due to in-group trust issues. Study 2 found that...
In organizations, conflict often occurs over commons resources because they are shared and often critical for influence, performance, and survival. Research in property rights, territoriality, and social dilemma literatures maintain that, to reduce such conflict, organizations should facilitate the (psychological) privatization of commons resources...
Burgeoning interest in the social dilemma paradigm by strategic management and operations management scholars has led to two research questions: First, is cooperative strategies used by alliance partners perceived as social dilemmas? Second, if cooperative strategies are perceived as social dilemmas, is this perception robust as a function of work...
In organizations, conflict often revolves around commons resources because they are critical for influence, performance, and organizational survival. Research on property rights, territoriality, and social dilemmas suggests that to reduce such conflict, organizations should facilitate the (psychological) privatization of commons resources. We compl...
We extend real options research by introducing the concept of collective real options and model how collective real options provide strategic alliances a mechanism to manage social uncertainty. Collective real options manage social uncertainty by producing relational small wins that develop trust. The amount of trust developed by acquiring a collec...
There is a long, interdisciplinary tradition of examining why organizations remove privileges from members as a part of disciplinary
action. In contrast, little is known about why organizations return privileges after disciplinary action has occurred. Nonetheless,
such reinstatement is ubiquitous in organizations. This paper provides a starting poi...
Contributions to public goods are premised on the expectation that the collective will realize benefit in excess of the value of required contributions. However, past research has focused on public goods of fixed and known value, for which the added value of the produced public good is obvious. Research has largely ignored public goods whose eventu...
Audience responses systems are electronic devices allowing audience interaction and they are increasingly being used in educational and business settings to enhance various pedagogical and practical processes. This paper discusses how ARS technology may be used as a method of collecting data for research purposes. Specifically, this paper demonstra...
Audience responses systems are electronic devices allowing audience interaction and they are increasingly being used in educational and business settings to enhance various pedagogical and practical processes. This paper discusses how ARS technology may be used as a method of collecting data for research purposes. Specifically, this paper demonstra...
Much research has examined how and why managers discipline members by removing privileges. However, there has been little research examining the phenomenon of returning privileges to disciplined members, otherwise known as reinstatement. This research introduces reinstatement to the discussion of organizational punishment and discipline by providin...
The cooperation-competition tension in strategic alliances creates a social dilemma where
Leading companies know that collaboration and creativity in supply chain (SC) relationships are critical to future competitiveness. Yet, many companies struggle to collaborate effectively. This reality raises the question: “How can managers overcome the cultural and structural impediments to SC collaboration?” Through a series of in-depth, semi-str...
The social dilemma paradigm traditionally addresses two types of collective action problems: give-some and take-some resource management dilemmas. We highlight several limitations of this paradigm in addressing more complicated resource management problems where actors both give and/or take resources simultaneously or sequentially. In this paper, w...
While processes for transition from planned to market economy vary, there is one common outcome from the transition process – more discriminating customers. Growing customer expectations increase the possibility of failing to meet those expectations. In competitive market economies service failures are accompanied by new consequences of lost custom...
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide academics and practitioners a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the benefits, barriers, and bridges to successful collaboration in strategic supply chains. Design/methodology/approach – A triangulation method consisting of a literature review, a cross-functional mail survey, and 51 in-depth...
Strategic Supply Chain Management (SCM) creates and maintains collective gains through appropriate alliance relationships, which often require initial investments in an uncertain environment. The development of such relationships may be hindered because, as a form of strategic alliance, Supply Chain (SC) alliances are social dilemmas. This paper us...
Technological innovation enables modern Supply Chain Management (SCM). The willingness to reassess the roles and behaviours of management is required to unleash the true creative power of SCM. Unfortunately, most managers and business educators have focused more on quantitative and technical aspects of SCM than on creating an environment that suppo...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to understand how information technology (IT) is used to enhance supply chain performance.
Design/methodology/approach
A large‐scale survey and semi‐structured interviews were used to collect industry data.
Findings
Two distinct dimensions to information sharing – connectivity and willingness – are identified...
Supply chains are beginning to displace firms as the competitive entity in the global marketplace. Managed supply chains offer the promise of added value through proactive cooperative efforts among participating firms. However, as a strategic alliance, managed supply chains represent a form of social dilemma: supply chain alliances may fail because...
Technological innovation enables modern Supply Chain Management (SCM). The willingness to reassess the roles and behaviours of management is required to unleash the true creative power of SCM. Unfortunately, most managers and business educators have focused more on quantitative and technical aspects of SCM than on creating an environment that suppo...
Some scholars have been so blunt as to claim that information technology is the answer to all the problems facing supply chain managers. We posit that, although information technology integration is necessary for a supply chain to succeed, people are also crucial for supply chain management to succeed. We further propose that managers must take int...
Supply chain management implies an increased reliance on closer buyer/supplier relationships. This study used a multi-method (survey and interview) approach to determine the nature of alliance management in modern supply chains. One point regarding the present status of alliance management in today's supply chain world is clear--truly synergistic r...
Information integration is a leading aim for many supply-chain managers. Although the benefits of successful information integration are desirable, the barriers are quite daunting. Our study benchmarks the current status of information integration in supply chain management using indepth case study methodology at five channel positions. The study r...
Using cross-channel mail survey, we analyze two dimensions to information sharing within supply chain networks (n=254, senior-level supply chain managers). The first dimension--connectivity or technology--has been heavily investigated and found to have significant impact on firm profitability. The second dimension--willingness or human behavior--ha...
Globalization, new technology, and potential high returns have compelled many managers to adopt supply chain management. However, despite commitment and investment from managers, many firms are not able to realize high returns on supply chain initiatives. Our study uses a triangulation methodology to address the question, "What are the requirements...
Executive Summary Supply base reduction and supplier performance measurement can be useful tools in developing closer relationships with suppliers. After successfully reducing its supply base, one company in the transportation industry achieved additional value from its supply base by utilizing a supplier performance measurement system with its rem...
