A Typology for Causes of Escalation of Commitment Phenomenon in Governmental Sector

Document Type : Research Article (Original Article)

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

2 MSc student of Business Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

Abstract

Sometimes in the real world, decision makers escalate on their commitment and decisions, despite of the negative feedbacks. Several factors and classifications have been proposed for this organizational phenomenon, but they only considered classical perspectives and do not represented comprehensive outlook. In this study, we designed a questionnaire which contains the related factors and then by analyzing the obtained data and using the confirmatory factor analysis, the assumptions given were examined. So, we recognized 7 causes of this phenomenon such as: psychological, social, environmental, and project factors, fear and concerns, organizational supervision, and agent. It should be noted that, we were not able to elicit experimental evidence for agent factor. Finally, we proposed the limitations of this study and represented some suggestions for future studies.

Keywords

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 05 February 2017
  • Revise Date: 25 April 2021
  • Accept Date: 05 February 2017

Share

How to cite

Statistics