Over 60 years of research on participative leadership has documented the many benefits of power sharing in organizations. However, a common obstacle to power sharing is the unwillingness of those with power to share it. An experimental study is presented that investigated the effects of managers’ implicit theories of power in organizations on their willingness to share power with subordinates. ...

background: the organizational commitment concept attracted many researchers’ attention to this field; because staff commitment is a strong and effective power of success these organizations. the current study conducted with the aim of investigation the effective factors on organizational commitment dimensions in the view of physicians and sub- physicians’ inductee to service law based on peste...

The Role of Personal, Organizational, and Technological Factors in Predicting Teachers’ Beliefs about Knowledge Sharing M. Bohlool R. Hosseyngholizaadeh, Ph.D. M. Karami, Ph.D. To explore the role of personal, organizational, and technological factors in predicting teachers’ beliefs about knowledge sharing, a sample of 173 Rashtkhaaree teachers was randomly sele...

We present an on-going research project carried out at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina. This project investigates theoretical and practical research questions related to the development of a dialogue system situated in a virtual environment. We describe the PLN research group in which this project is being developed and, in particular, we spell out the areas of expertise of the...

This paper presents the main outcome of the ECPC research group: an archive of European parliamentary speeches created to study this genre and the hypothetical influence of translation in the construction of European identity. The archive is made up of, on the one hand, a parallel corpus containing the English and Spanish versions of the European Parliament proceedings, and on the other hand, t...

Humanistic psychology has always viewed scientific psychology with skepticism. Good reasons for this skepticism continuously appear. One is then left with the choice, “Is a scientific approach to humans inherently wrongheaded?” or “Is scientific psychology an imperfect but improving enterprise?” This article reviews another domain where research in scientific psychology proves misleading. Suppo...

In a cellular CDMA system, the received powers from mobiles that are close to the base station form a dominant factor in the interference presented to mobiles that are farther away. Conventional power control techniques try to eliminate this problem by maintaining equal received powers for all users. However, recent research has produced successive interference cancellation schemes that rely on...

Renewable energy can become a key factor for sustainable next generation cellular networks. This work explores the possibility to feed base stations of a Heterogeneous Network with renewable energy sources, and analyzes implications of such choice with respect to a classical grid powered solution. Cost and CO2 emission savings are evaluated for different scenarios, showing that properly powerin...

This paper examines the path dependent characteristics of organizational learning. The agent-based simulation study builds on the well known tension between exploration and exploitation in organizational adaptation (MARCH 1991). I argue that social power severely affects the trade-off between exploration and exploitation and thus the likelihood for an organization to become path dependent. In a...

The growing awareness towards energy efficient cellular networks has paved way for new technologies in designing green cellular networks. According to technical analysts, the base stations are the most energy intensive part of a typical cellular network. Saving power in base stations is therefore the primary focus in green cellular networks. The main goal of designing green base stations is for...