Touch,compliance, and interpersonal affect

This study investigated the effects of touch on compliance to a help request. The experimenter's initiation of touch during the request did increase compliance as measured by time spent scoring bogus personality inventories. The hypothesized role of attraction in mediating the touch-compliance link was not supported. Instead, touch may have served to indicate status or power differences that influenced subjects to comply. A sex of subject × sex of experimenter interaction was manifested in female subjects complying more to female experimenters than did subjects in any other sex pairing.The authors would like to thank James Daly and Kay McIntyre for their help in conducting this study. Completion of this project was supported by Weldon Spring Research Grant from the University of Missouri to the first author.     

DEPRECIATION IN PRODUCTION ANALYSIS AND IN INCOME AND WEALTH ACCOUNTS: RESOLUTION OF AN OLD DEBATE

In this article, I propose a resolution for the long-standing controversy over depreciation. I develop, from capital theory, income and wealth accounting capital concepts and compare them with those from production analysis and productivity measurement. I conclude that depreciation in economic accounts is exactly the same measurement as in production analysis. As for empirical implications, market-based measures of depreciation are appropriate for economic accounts, provided they are appropriate empirical measures of economic depreciation.     

A Response to U. T. Place

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Skinner’s (1957) analysis of verbal behavior has received an unwarranted amount of criticism over the years, and the recently published reviews of Verbal...     

The ethical implications of short-termism: Leadership failure in the executive suite

The author argues that managing to maximize short-term performance in ordinary circumstances is a failure not only of sound management practice but of moral principle. Management for the short term is largely a manifestation of self-interest which is unethical when it harms the long-term competitiveness and viability of the firm and, thus, the interests of all stakeholders but transient speculators and management itself.