Economics Language and Assumptions: How Theories can Become Self-Fulfilling

By Fabrizio Ferraro, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton. 2003

1,145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Shaker A. Zahra
2. Adam M. Grant
3. S. Rynes
4. B. Gerhart
5. Mary Sully de Luque
6. Robert W. Strand
7. R. Freeman
8. David Seidl

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. B. Kuvaas
2. Anders Dysvik
3. Marylène Gagné
4. Robert Buch
5. Adam M. Grant
6. Jacques Forest
7. Michael A. Hitt
8. B. Gerhart

In Safety Research

1. Adam M. Grant
2. B. Kuvaas
3. Jacques Forest
4. Marylène Gagné
5. M. Halme
6. Anders Dysvik
7. Robert Buch
8. W. Becker

Citations in the corpus

• From social control to financial economics: the linked ecologies of economics and business in twentieth century America (2009, background): “within the economics mainstream, in the significant growth of economics PhDs in business school appointments (particularly striking at the schools we have studied), and in the sharply asymmetric patterns of citation between the economics and business literatures (Pieters and Baumgartner 2002; Ferrar”
• Transaction Cost Economics As a Theory of Supply Chain Efficiency (2020, background): “Contrary to what some TCE critics (e.g., Ferraro et al. 2005) propose, TCE merely acknowledges the possibility of opportunism, it does not make any claims about its prevalence.”
• Why Do Bad Management Theories Persist? A Comment on Ghoshal (2005, background): “As reviewed elsewhere (Ferraro et al., 2005) there is evidence that taking economics courses or majoring in economics results in (a) more free-riding (e.”
• Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box (2011, background): “Ferraro, Pfeffer, and Sutton (2005) observed that organizations were administered in accordance with managers’ preconceptions about human nature.”
• The Construction of a Global Profession: The Transnationalization of Economics1 (2006, background): “Economic problems are detached from their local (historical and geographical) context, and are generally understood to be instances of some universal phenomena.”
• Corporate responsibility: Reflections on context and consequences (2009, background): “If, however, we take seriously the recommendation that management scholars should not lose their grip on broader societal issues (Ghoshal 2005; Rocha and Ghoshal 2006; Ferraro, Pfeffer, and Sutton 2005), we must improve our understanding of the societal outcomes of CR.”