But it is rare that the theory of escalation of commitment can be defined as neatly as in Professor Shubik's auction game, which is why a self-described "entertainment shopping" site, Swoopo.com, is so fascinating.
Other results of the model revealed that the CD4SP over CD8SP cell ratio fits the "instructive" theory of thymic lineage commitment [17], [18].
Next, we really need a normative theory of what a commitment does to the value of an option.
While in theory an impressive example of commitment, the decision to sign Carr to a long-term deal was hardly momentous; he had arrived at Newcastle with a stellar soccer resumé, counting Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur among his previous employers.
This study explores the effect of an apparently small difference in national culture on the ability of agency theory to explain escalation of commitment to failing projects in two countries with significant cross-border investment, i.e., USA and Canada.
The learner needs to know that music theory requires a good deal of commitment, and isn't as yielding a study as is the learning process for playing an instrument.
The commitment is "a commitment to the further confrontation of new phenomena within the framework of that theory, a commitment to a research programme, and a wager that all relevant phenomena can be accounted for without giving up that theory" (1980, 88).
We applied theory on dual allegiance to multiple targets of commitment, in conjunction with person-organization fit theory, to explore the dynamics of organizational and professional commitment among scientists and engineers working in hybrid, research-focused organizations.
Both these features represent important advantages for the Davidsonian approach (Davidson's rejection of determinate meanings as having a significant role to play in a theory of meaning already involves a commitment to an extensional approach to language).
Instead of providing an account of a theory's ontological commitment as traditionally understood, the truthmaker account is an account of a theory's fundamental ontological commitments.
Likewise, if bound first-order variables are assumed to range over sets (as they do in set theory), a commitment to the existence of these sets is incurred.
