J
Jerry Ross
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 14
Citations - 2986
Jerry Ross is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Escalation of commitment & Wage. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 14 publications receiving 2930 citations. Previous affiliations of Jerry Ross include Stanford University.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Stability in the Midst of Change: A Dispositional Approach to Job Attitudes
Barry M. Staw,Jerry Ross +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the notion that job attitudes are rather consistent within individuals, showing stability both over time and across situations, and found that prior attitudes were a stronger predictor of subsequent job satisfaction than either changes in pay or the social status of one's job.
Journal Article
Behavior in escalation situations: Antecedents, prototypes, and solutions.
Barry M. Staw,Jerry Ross +1 more
Journal ArticleDOI
Commitment to a Policy Decision: A Multi-Theoretical Perspective.
Barry M. Staw,Jerry Ross +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, subjects in an experimental simulation played the role of a decision maker in the World Bank and were asked to allocate resources to one of several courses of action and their commitment was measured following a financial setback.
Journal ArticleDOI
Commitment in an experimenting society: A study of the attribution of leadership from administrative scenarios.
Barry M. Staw,Jerry Ross +1 more
Journal ArticleDOI
Expo 86: An Escalation Prototype.
Jerry Ross,Barry M. Staw +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined British Columbia's decision to host a world's fair (Expo 86) in Vancouver and proposed a new theory that integrates determinants of escalation from several levels of analysis over time.