A central debate in the Comparative Foreign Policy literature concerns the role of government composition on the international behavior of parliamentary democracies. For the past two decades, a multitude of studies have discussed whether single-party governments were more or les…
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leaders' behavior and employees' commitment to the organization in different national cultures. Two research questions were proposed. Research Question 1 tested the relationship between employees' perception of th…
Life direction decisions are those choices which we affirm as being the appropriate guidance for our life. They project our intentions and reflect our hopes, fears, aspirations and ambitions. They chart the course we will follow and are formative for the other choices we make. T…
The rapid growth of relationship marketing specifically in perspective of individual consumer has led to an increased focus on facets of consumer behavioral intentions as the successful relational exchange outcome. The purpose of this study was to determine whether consumer trus…
The intersection of peoples' paid work and non-work responsibilities has over the last twenty years received increased interest in the media, workplaces, and academic circles. The increased attention is driven by a realisation of the undesirable consequences of inter-role confli…
Provision of high quality services to customers is recognised as a successful differentiation strategy for organisations. In order to deliver high-quality service to customers, employees of the organisation are required to perform certain behaviours at or above acceptable standa…
Since the early 1980's there has been a heightened academic interest in the field of commitment, particularly as it relates to business relationships. Knowledge of commitment continues to advance and has begun splintering and applied into specific and narrow fields. The particul…
The importance of good relationship among parties in the construction industry has been accepted as one of the central issues of an organisation's success. The growing acceptance to the Relational Contracting approaches that representing partnering, supply chain alliances and ot…
This dissertation investigates how political instability is related to the probability of civil war. According to the literature in comparative politics, regime breakdown is caused by critical events such as economic decline, defeat in interstate war, death of a leader in office…
The challenges of achieving the new vision in pharmacy education have been cited as an important reason for advocating transformational leadership as the kind of educational leadership that is required to assist the pharmacy profession in creating a patient centered practice. Ba…
This study examines why groups that initially rallied around a policy--in what Janis (1972) describes as groupthink--continue to unanimously support the original course of action despite receiving negative feedback further into the case. This behavior is puzzling as one would ra…
Development practice in conflicted countries is conceptualized and carried out upon a shaky economic theoretical foundation. These theories were built upon research conducted on the development of European nations. This has led to a focus in the development community on investme…
This dissertation deals with integrity understood as a state of the psyche. Its primary interlocutor is Professor Bernard Williams, and its point of departure is my interpretation of his Objection from Integrity to impartialist moral theories. Against Williams, I hope to show th…
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…
One of the world's fastest growing banking methods today is Shariah compliant banking, with the number of Islamic banking and finance institutions growing from one in 1975 to more than three hundred today in more than seventy-five countries around the world, holding assets value…
Rapidly changing competitive environments are forcing firms to build long-term relationships with their partner. Relationship marketing that stresses on the long-term orientation can yield sustainable competitive advantage. Trust among the parties and commitment must be strength…
Premarital cohabitation has received an increasing amount of attention in the literature since the late 20th century. With limited literature addressing how these couples compare to those of married couples in regards to satisfaction, commitment, and resiliency. This study inves…
Religion and spirituality are two distinct concepts that have been linked to positive outcomes (King & Boyatzis, 2015) and identity development (King & Furrow, 2004) in youth. Participation in religious and spiritual contexts has been associated with youth thriving (King et al.,…
This study uses priests’ servant leadership style to investigate its impact on their level of commitment to fostering Catholic school identity mediated by work engagement. Servant leadership is an inner desire to serve others. The purpose of this study was to explore priests’ pe…
Rimini Protokoll’s Remote Macao (2017) is an immersive performance in which I participated as an audience-performer. There were no prepared actors in this piece. Around thirty paying audience members put on the headphones, wandered around downtown Macao guided by a disembodied v…