The purpose of the present research was to investigate managerial influence processes in Turkey and the USA. Two survey studies were conducted to explore three objectives. First, the role of core tactics (rational persuasion, consultation, collaboration, and inspirational appeal…
What explains the variation in industrialization strategies across countries? In this thesis paper, I explore the influence of the business environment and economic elites in the varieties of industrial policy. I theorize that differences in how firms are integrated into an econ…
This research study used hermeneutic phenomenology to explore the lived experience of eighteen participants, who self-identified as having observed an interruptive symbol (image, art piece, song, poem or the like), that impacted the observer in some way. It focused on how the pa…
This research explored influence processes and intermediary elements during multilevel transitions to aid traditional organizations to simultaneously transition the leadership and the organization. Although members are not often evaluated in leadership research, the findings of …
This dissertation explores the interaction of debt covenants and firms’ investment behaviors, especially the association between debt covenants and project-level operations. Although previous research has examined the association between contractual terms or gross measures of in…
Ces contibutions étudient les références littéraires et artistiques dans la philosophie de Foucault (1926-1984) et cherchent, à travers l'analyse de textes critiques du philosophe (articles et préfaces d'ouvrages) sur certains écrivains, peintres, architectes, cinéastes, à dessi…
Media Effects covers topics such as intermedia processes and powerful media effects, political communication effects and media influences on marketing communications.
"This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural history of early modern surgery; it discusses how Italian and European surgeons' attitudes to health and beauty, and how patients' gender shaped views on the publ…