In 2015, the revelation that Volkswagen had been gaming emissions tests shook the corporate world. The deception involved 11 million diesel cars being fitted with a ‘defeat device’, which masked the emissions released by these vehicles when they detected they were undergoing testing, but otherwise polluted at levels flagrantly beyond legal limits. Since being busted, …
David Sloan Wilson, Mark van Vugt and I have just published a special edition of This View of Life magazine, exploring business from an evolutionary perspective. Here's our introduction to the series: This View of Life magazine helps to demonstrate the value of an evolutionary perspective for many areas of society, including healthcare, sustainability, and education. Surprisingly, a domain that has yet to …
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How can evolutionary theory be applied to and influence the ways in which we research and practice human resource management (HRM)? In No Best Way, Professor Stephen Colarelli notes that the theory of evolution has been the theoretical bedrock of the life sciences for well over a century, yet it is has only just begun making inroads …
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What follows is an overview of Michael Price (Brunel University, London) and Dominic Johnson's (Edinburgh University) 'Adaptionist Theory of Cooperation in Groups', as outlined in Gad Saad's (2011) Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences. -- To help explain organizational cooperation from an evolutionary perspective, Price and Johnson developed the 'Adaptionist Theory of Cooperation in Groups'- abbreviated …
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Darwinian Business 