... for organizational unity, exploring how cooperation endures when governance, risk and reward are shared equally among members. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on historical sources and textual analysis, this study analyzes Roberts’s Articles of Agreement using social exchange theory as a heuristic lens...

...Yaron J. Zoller; Jeff Muldoon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest Homans’ social exchange theory (SET), a management theory, as an explanation for some of the findings of some of the Hawthorne experiments (1924-1933), which demonstrated how social situations play an important role...

... Homans’ perspective on altruism and self-interest and analyses Homans’ place in management’s complex history. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper which synthesizes both primary and secondary sources on Homans, social exchange theory (SET), Malinowski and other Homans...