Beyond the Psychological Contract: Ideology and the Economic Social Contract

By combining normative philosophy and empirical social science, I craft a research framework for assessing differential expectations of economic justice within the economic social contract of the United States. I argue that distinct views of such a contract grounded in the tradition of individualism and communitarianism manifest in people's judgments about economic justice. We empirically test these hypotheses on a sample of 270 subjects, finding broad support for the theoretical framework.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Management

Department dc:contributor.department

Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Watson, George W.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Shepard, Jon M.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Cobb, Anthony Terry
• Wokutch, Richard E.
• Stephens, Carroll U.
• Harvey, Robert J.
• Christman, John P.

• none

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-3213172239721111

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/30413