Handbook of Social Resource Theory

1 Introduction. Social Resource Theory: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.- Part I The Basic Framework.- 2 Resource Theory of Social Exchange.- 3 Some Conceptual and Theoretical Issues in Resource Theory of Social Exchange.- Part II Conceptual and Theoretical Developments.- 4 Toward an Expansion of Resource Exchange Theory: A Facet Approach.- 5 Formalizing Foa's Social Resource Theory of Exchange.- 6 Social Exchange Theory, Exchange Resources, and Interpersonal Relationships: A Modest Resolution of Theoretical Difficulties.- 7 Attribution of Friendship: The Influence of the Nature and Comparability of Resources Given and Received.- 8 Understanding Status as a Social Resource.- 9 Moral Resources.- 10 The Structural Bases of Resource Distribution.- Part III Theoretical Integrations.- 11 Towards Integrating Distributive Justice, Procedural Justice, and Social Resource Theories.- 12 Resource Types and Fairness Perceptions in Social Dilemmas.- 13 Goods, Bads, and the Foa Resources: Analyzing Their Operation in the New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces.- 14 The Complementary Natures of Resource Theory and Interpersonal Evaluation Theory.- 15 A Biosocial Approach to Resource Theory.- Part IV Organizational, Institutional, Societal, and Inter-cultural Issues.- 16 The Emergence of Social Meaning: A Theory of Action Construal.- 17 Some Hypotheses on Cross-Cultural Differences in the Impact of Resource Type on the Preferred Principle of Distributive Justice.- 18 Cultural Differences in Resource Exchange at the Workplace: A Sino-US Comparison.- 19 The Positive, Sustaining, and Protective Power of Resources: Insights from Conservation of Resources Theory.- 20 Initiating Customer Loyalty to a Retailer: A Resource Theory Perspective.- 21 Resources and Transactions in the Organization's Underworld: Exchange Content and Consequences.- Part V Justice Conceptions and Processes in Resource Exchange.- 22 Limitations on Structural Principles of Distributive Justice: TheCase of

Ali Kazemi received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Gothenburg University and is Associate Professor of Social Psychology and Dean for the Faculty Board of Education, Health and Social Sciences at University of Skövde in Sweden. His dissertation on fairness in social dilemmas received the 'Best 2007 Dissertation Award'. He has been the incumbent of several academic positions at the Universities of Skövde, Gothenburg, and Jönköping, as well as at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute. He has conducted and published basic and applied research within the areas of social justice, well-being, decision making in social dilemmas, and attitude and behavior change. Kazemi has authored/co-edited four books, serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Conflict and Reconciliation, and is the Editor-in-Chief with Törnblom for Social Justice Research.

Kjell Törnblom received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia where Uriel Foa was one of his teachers at the doctoral program in social psychology. They have since collaborated on several publications. Törnblom has co-edited three books (e.g., Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications, with Riël Vermunt) and a number of theme issues of Social Justice Research for which he and Ali Kazemi are now Editors-in-Chief. Törnblom's research on social justice, resource theory, conflict, intergroup relations, and theory integration has been published in various professional journals and as book chapters. He has held positions at universities in the US, Sweden and Canada, is now a Professor Emeritus and also affiliated as a guest researcher with ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich).

The Handbook presents the basic tenets of the social resource theory originated from the late Uriel Foa and provides an authoritative agenda for the future developments of this theory. Kjell Törnblom and Ali Kazemi have made an excellent job in gathering a global group of contributing scholars representing an outstanding mix of respected and long-standing researchers in social psychology, sociology, psychology, management, economics and marketing, political science, history, and applied ethics/philosophy. This Handbook is an ideal resource for researchers, instructors, and graduate students in all these fields with an interest in social resource theory."

Edna B. Foa

Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

"Uriel Foa (1916-1990) developed social resource theory in the 1960s.  In the next half century this theory has generated an enormous amount of new data and theory in social, cross-cultural, and educational psychology, as well as in related disciplines. It has inspired work on interpersonal relationships, attributions, the understanding of status, morality, distributive justice, procedural justice, social dilemmas, interpersonal evaluation, biosocial theory, and action construal. Applications in both organizational and educational settings and in marketing studies indicate the theory's relevance for the "real world." This volume edited by Kjell Törnblom and Ali Kazemi is the wonderful Festschrift that Foa did not have, because he died when he was too young by contemporary life expectancy standards. It includes chapters by many of the stars of the fields that social resource theory has influenced."

Harry C. Triandis

Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois  

"Forty years ago Edna and Uriel Foa began to spell out the unwritten social rules by which we trade - on a daily basis - friendship, information, respect, gifts, favors and other rewards and punishments. Sociologists, psychologists,

The Handbook presents the basic tenets of the social resource theory originated from the late Uriel Foa and provides an authoritative agenda for the future developments of this theory. Kjell Törnblom and Ali Kazemi have made an excellent job in gathering a global group of contributing scholars representing an outstanding mix of respected and long-standing researchers in social psychology, sociology, psychology, management, economics and marketing, political science, history, and applied ethics/philosophy. This Handbook is an ideal resource for researchers, instructors, and graduate students in all these fields with an interest in social resource theory."

Edna B. Foa

Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

"Uriel Foa (1916-1990) developed social resource theory in the 1960s. In the next half century this theory has generated an enormous amount of new data and theory in social, cross-cultural, and educational psychology, as well as in related disciplines. It has inspired work on interpersonal relationships, attributions, the understanding of status, morality, distributive justice, procedural justice, social dilemmas, interpersonal evaluation, biosocial theory, and action construal. Applications in both organizational and educational settings and in marketing studies indicate the theory's relevance for the "real world." This volume edited by Kjell Törnblom and Ali Kazemi is the wonderful Festschrift that Foa did not have, because he died when he was too young by contemporary life expectancy standards. It includes chapters by many of the stars of the fields that social resource theory has influenced."

Harry C. Triandis

Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois

"Forty years ago Edna and Uriel Foa began to spell out the unwritten social rules by which we trade - on a daily basis - friendship, information, respect, gifts, favors and other rewardsand punishments. Sociologists, psychologists,