Killing Without Dying: the Absence of Suicide Missions
Killing Without Dying: the Absence of Suicide Missions
The chapter is divided into two parts. The first part examines why organizations may be unwilling to resort to suicide missions (SMs). It considers five possible reasons: cognitive accessibility, normative preferences, counterproductive effects, constituency costs, and technological costs. The second part explores the factors that affect individual members' willingness to participate in SMs. Because evidence on the reasons or causes for the absence of SMs is particularly hard to come by, this chapter is more analytical than empirical. It formulates hypotheses and illustrates them by examples rather than testing them.
Keywords: cognitive accessibility, normative preference, counterproductive effects, constituency costs, technological costs, organization
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