Current research in organizational behavior suggests that organizations should adopt collectivistic values because they promote cooperation and productivity, while individualistic values should be avoided because they incite destructive conXict and opportunism. In this paper, we highlight one possible beneWt of individualistic values that has not previously been considered. Because individualis...

To my father, mother, brother iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express the deepest appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Manos Tentzeris, who has the attitude and the substance of a genius: he continually and convincingly conveyed a spirit of adventure in regard to research. Without his guidance and support this dissertation would not have been possible. I would like to thank my committee members,...

 The purpose of this paper is to explore the influential factors on entrepreneurial spirit of wood and paper industries students in two universities, namely Agriculture and natural resources faculty of Tehran University and Shahid Rajaiee teacher training University. A sample of 100 students were selected from a target population of 572 students using the Cochran formula. The respondents ...

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This article attempts to explain how Li Yu 李漁 (1611–80), China’s “first professional writer,” made himself indispensable to the literati culture upon which he socially and financially depended by writing, commenting on, and performing chuanqi傳奇, or plays in the characteristic Southern style. This article analyzes four plays based on Li’s own short stories and theorizes their appeal to seventeen...

Traditional Iranian Medicine (T.I.M.) is a branch of natural history sciences that has originated from theoretical wisdom. The philosophy of this medicine is dependent on the hakims and philosophers viewpoint to the world and then to the fashion and general quality of its parts. This holisticly viewpoint to the human beside available intellectual comparisons and partition in medicine (Unlike wh...