Despite its great potential to streamline design and construction processes, the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in many projects has failed to achieve expected benefits due to user resistance. Grounded in the technology acceptance model and equity theory, this study proposes a model of factors predicting resistance behaviour...
Published in Journal of Travel Research
Tourist behavior has a critical impact on the environmental sustainability of tourism. The hedonic nature of tourism and lack of an economic incentive make tourist behavior particularly hard to change. Making tourists behave more environmentally friendly would have substantial environmental benefits. This is the aim of the present study. Three alte...
Motivation Theory considers how to influence work behavior of employees in a positive way in order to enhance productive behavior and to increase job satisfaction. Besides positive outcomes, such as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), also counterproductive work behavior (CWB) is a component of employees’ work outcomes. The dissertation deal...
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The present paper reports results from, to our knowledge, the first study designed to examine the neuronal responses to income inequality in situations in which individuals have made different contributions in terms of work effort. We conducted an experiment that included a prescanning phase in which the participants earned money by working, and a ...
Published in Journal of marriage and the family
Equity theory suggests that relationships are more harmonious when both members of a dyad believe that their exchanges are fair. However, the level and frequency of exchange, rather than perceptions of equity, have been the focus of most research on support and the quality of intergenerational relations. Using data from 1,426 mother-child dyads nes...
Published in Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
The study investigates the impact corporate reputation has on cognitive, affective and behavioural customer reactions after price increases. Specifically, it includes inferred motive, price fairness, anger and purchase intentions. On the basis of equity theory, attribution theory and the theory of cognitive dissonance, the conceptual model is devel...
Cet article vise à présenter l'évolution de l'économie du bien-être, en particulier la nouvelle économie du bien-être des critères de compensation ou celle de Bergson-Samuelson ainsi que les champs émergents de l'économie du bonheur, de l'approche comparatiste d'A. Sen et de la théorie de l'équité de Marc Fleurbaey.
In order to better understand culture’s role between perceived equity in one’s romantic relationship and relationship satisfaction, we sampled two groups from different culturalbackgrounds and attempted to answer the question of whether culture would impact the relationship between equity and relationship satisfaction. We interviewed men and womenf...
Published in Journal of Business Ethics
In this study, we conducted two experiments to examine the effect of relationship commitment on the reaction of shoppers to receiving too much change, controlling for the amount of excess change. Hypotheses based on equity theory, opportunism and guilt were set up and tested. The first study showed that, when the less committed consumer is confront...
Published in Sex Roles
Past research shows that consumers tend to equate higher prices with higher value. However, it remains unclear whether consumers of athletic events follow the predictions of equity theory when attributing value to particular teams. We conducted 3 studies to investigate the existence and consequences of a disparity between men's and women's college ...
