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Using Perspective Taking to De-Escalate Commitment to Software Product Launch Decisions
In software product development settings when things go awry and the original plan loses credibility, managers often choose to honor the originally announced product launch schedule anyway, in effect launching a product that may be seriously compromised in terms of both functionality and reliability. In this study, we draw on the perspective of escalation of commitment to investigate adherence to original product launch schedules despite negative feedback. Specifically, we use the notion of perspective taking to propose a de-escalation tactic. Through a laboratory experiment, we found strong support that taking the perspective of individuals that can be negatively influenced by a product launch can indeed effectively promote de-escalation of commitment. Furthermore, we found that the experiences of anticipated guilt mediate the relationship between perspective taking and de-escalation, and this indirect effect is significantly greater when a decision maker’s personal cost associated with de-escalation is high rather than low
Coarsening Dynamics of an Antiferromagnetic XY model on the Kagome Lattice: Breakdown of the Critical Dynamic Scaling
We find a breakdown of the critical dynamic scaling in the coarsening
dynamics of an antiferromagnetic {\em XY} model on the kagome lattice when the
system is quenched from disordered states into the Kosterlitz-Thouless ({\em
KT}) phases at low temperatures. There exist multiple growing length scales:
the length scales of the average separation between fractional vortices are
found to be {\em not} proportional to the length scales of the quasi-ordered
domains. They are instead related through a nontrivial power-law relation. The
length scale of the quasi-ordered domains (as determined from optimal collapse
of the correlation functions for the order parameter )
does not follow a simple power law growth but exhibits an anomalous growth with
time-dependent effective growth exponent. The breakdown of the critical dynamic
scaling is accompanied by unusual relaxation dynamics in the decay of
fractional () vortices, where the decay of the vortex numbers is
characterized by an exponential function of logarithmic powers in time.Comment: 13 pages, 26 figure
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