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Why who you are at the time matters
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Why who you are at the time matters
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an examination of the relationship between social identity salience and risky decision making
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ETD_2521
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10002600001.ETD.000052947
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English
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theses
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Management
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Group identity
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Decision making
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Business enterprises--Decision making
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Risky choice is an integral part of the strategic decision making process. It encompasses both organizationally and personally relevant outcomes. Individual decision makers must navigate the process in such a manner that yields optimal results for the organization as well as the individual decision maker. As a result, it is important to further uncover additional antecedents to strategic decision making in organizations. The goal of this dissertation is to examine how salient social identities, or the social identity that is psychologically active at the time a decision is made, influences the risky decision making process. Specifically, I explore the question of whether individuals in a particular social group change their risk taking depending on the context that activates their social identity. I argue that individuals will be more likely to make a risky decision when their identity puts them at an advantage (positive social identity) than when they are put in a disadvantageous position (negative social identity). In addition, I argue that identity orientations, or whether an individual views himself as separate from or a representative of their social group, influence risky decision making. The results provide some evidence that priming social identities can affect the nature of an individual's risk taking. Boundary conditions to these relationships are discussed.
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vii, 88 p. : ill.
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Supplementary File: Shalei V K Simms Dissertation Images
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Ph.D.
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Vita
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by Shalei V. K. Simms
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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2010
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2010
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ETD doctoral
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Open
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2010-03-31 13:11:39
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after November 30th, 2010.
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