%0 Journal Article
%T How Coal Miners Develop Path-Dependence and Lock in to an Unsafe Behavioral Path
%A Zhengquan Xu
%A Qinren Cao
%A Ni Zhang
%J American Journal of Industrial and Business Management
%P 80-84
%@ 2164-5175
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ajibm.2014.42012
%X <p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;\">
	<span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Path dependence in behavioral agents
can influence their actions. Creation of path dependence is a process of agents
locking in their behavioral trajectory, which will increase the possibility of
their certain actions occurring repeatedly. In China, most of coal minesĄŻ
working place is located in deep underground, so coal miners must work in very
complex environment. In such environment, once behavioral path </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">occurre</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">d in the coal miners</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> the chance of incurring coal mining
accidents will </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">be</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> heavily</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">increase</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">d</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">. This article provides an empirical
study </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">on</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> how coal miners develop
path-dependence and lock</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">in</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> to</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> unsafe actions.
It expands upon the external and internal conditions that create path
dependence in behavioral agents. Drawing on these conditions, we construct a
process model of agents developing creation of path dependence and locking in
their behavioral path, and then, </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">by </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-US\">using the model, we elaborate why unsafe actions of coal miners in China frequently
and easily occur, and why coal mine accidents reoccur in period.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><o:p></o:p></span> 
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%K Unsafe Action
%K Path Dependence
%K Behavioral Agents
%K Accidents
%K Behavioral Trajectory
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=42741