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Business & Economics Leadership

The Behaviorally Informed Organization

edited by Dilip Soman & Catherine Yeung

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2020
Category
Leadership, General, Public Affairs & Administration
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487537173
    Publish Date
    Dec 2020
    List Price
    $41.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487507893
    Publish Date
    Mar 2021
    List Price
    $38.95

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Every organization is fundamentally in the business of behavior change, whether it be a government trying to get a business to comply with environmental regulations, a business persuading its customers to be loyal to its products, or a financial institution encouraging a client to start saving for retirement. Behavior change is critical to organizational success, but despite its centrality to organizations, we do not have a good understanding of how organizations can successfully employ insights from behavioral science in their operations. To address this gap, this book develops an overarching framework for using behavioral science. It shows how behavioral insights (BI) can be embedded in organizations to achieve better outcomes, improve the efficiency of processes, and maximize stakeholder engagement.

 

This edited volume provides an enterprise-wide strategic perspective on how governments, businesses, and other organizations have embedded BI into their operations. Contributions by academics and practitioners from the Behaviourally Informed Organizations partnership highlight pragmatic frameworks and prescriptive outcomes via illustrative case studies. Featuring a foreword by Cass R. Sunstein, this book investigates key findings from BI, with an eye toward how it can be used to solve problems and seize opportunities in diverse organizations.

About the authors

Dilip Soman is a professor and the Corus Chair in Communications Strategy at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. A behavioral scientist with a PhD from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, he is director of the University of Toronto’s India Innovation Institute and the coordinator of the Behavioural Economics in Action research cluster.

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Catherine Yeung is an associate professor of marketing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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