New paradoxes of risky decision making.

MH Birnbaum - Psychological review, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
During the last 25 years, prospect theory and its successor, cumulative prospect theory,
replaced expected utility as the dominant descriptive theories of risky decision making …

In the horns of the dilemma: Socioemotional wealth, financial wealth, and acquisitions in family firms

LR Gomez-Mejia, PC Patel… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We posit that family firms often face a dilemma in their strategic decision making: whether to
maintain current socioemotional wealth or pursue prospective financial wealth. Applying …

The role of mental accounting in household spending and investing decisions

CY Zhang, AB Sussman - Client Psychology. New York: Wiley …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
This chapter reviews recent advances in the literature on mental accounting-the process by
which people group expenses into categories, assign funds to these categories, determine …

Gender, financial risk, and probability weights

H Fehr-Duda, M De Gennaro, R Schubert - Theory and decision, 2006 - Springer
Women are commonly stereotyped as more risk averse than men in financial decision
making. In this paper we examine whether this stereotype reflects gender differences in …

Executive stock options as mixed gambles: Revisiting the behavioral agency model

GP Martin, LR Gomez-Mejia… - Academy of Management …, 2013 - journals.aom.org
Conceiving of stock options as providing CEOs with cues for the possibility of both greater
prospective wealth and losses to current wealth, we revisit predictions of the behavioral …

Prospect theory and the brain

CR Fox, RA Poldrack - Neuroeconomics, 2009 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter highlights the behavioral and neuroscience work on the
prospect theory and the neuroscience of behavioral decision-making. Several applications …

BestAmong the Worst or Worst Among the Best? Socioemotional Wealth and Risk-Performance Returns for Family and Non-family Firms Under Financial Distress

LR Gómez-Mejia, F Chirico… - … Theory and practice, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A firm's proactive engagement in risk, which has been deeply intertwined with the
entrepreneurship literature, is essential to sustaining a firm's long-term competitive …

Heavy lies the crown? How job anxiety affects top executive decision making in gain and loss contexts

MJ Mannor, AJ Wowak, VO Bartkus… - Strategic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary: Despite abundant anecdotal evidence that many top executives
experience anxiety in their jobs, the upper echelons literature has remained largely silent on …

A prospect theory-based interval dynamic reference point method for emergency decision making

L Wang, ZX Zhang, YM Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
Urgent or critical situations, such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters, often require
decision makers (DMs) to take crucial decisions. Emergency decision making (EDM) …

Risk aversion in cumulative prospect theory

U Schmidt, H Zank - Management Science, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper characterizes the conditions for strong risk aversion and second-order stochastic
dominance for cumulative prospect theory. Strong risk aversion implies a convex weighting …