The role of group selection in the evolution of social adaptations is a contentious issue. It is unclear whether all adaptations for social interaction should be considered group selected or whether the title ‘group selection’ should be confined to cases in which selection acts at the level of the group (i.e. interdemic selection). No matter what definition of group selection one uses, it is ne...

This study investigates the relationships between U.S. buying firms’ supplier development efforts, commitment, social capital accumulation with key suppliers, and buying firm performance. We identify linkages between supply chain management research on supplier development and organization theory research on social capital to consider how buying firm commitment to a long-term relationship, cogn...

This paper describes how a school of nursing has conceptualized and embodied social responsibility in its core values, curricular design, admission standards, clinical practice, and service learning opportunities. The school's engagement in the process of practicing social responsibility and clarifying its meaning and application has made apparent the natural linkage between social responsibili...

today, many companies have multiple channels, such as sales force, direct mail / catalog, internet and broadcast channels, telephone, etc. for providing goods and services to its customers. multiple distribution channels, despite having benefits, several challenges such as the incidence of conflict, allocation of product, free ride some members have being emerged. the aim of this study was to i...

The Business School of the Manchester Metropolitan University is one of the largest business schools in the UK comprising more than 150 academic staff organised into eleven thematic research groups. The Working Paper Series brings together research in progress from across the Business School for publication to a wider audience and to facilitate discussion. Working Papers are subject to a peer r...

'Entailment' can be said in many ways. In the present paper, we sketch a linguistic theory which motivates taking 'A entails B' to mean 'commitment to A is, in part, commitment to B', and we present four formal systems designed to capture this concept. These four systems turn out (somewhat surprisingly) to be the strict implicational fragments of the modal logics K, T, K4, and $4 (see Hughes an...

Using a model based on probabilistic functions (PF ), it’s introduced the concept of perfect zero knowledge (PZK ) commitment scheme (CS ) allowing quasigroupic homomorphic commitment (QHC ). Using QHC of +m (modular sum in Zm), application is considered in interactive argument systems (IAS ) for several languages. In four of the examples – generalized nand ( [∧(α)]), string equality ([=(m,α,)]...

This paper reinvestigates the impact of social networking site use by employees on job performance by conducting a methodological replication of Moqbel, Nevo, and Kock (2013) using samples (N=139) from Pakistan. In both studies, social networking site use has significant effects on organizational commitment and job satisfaction, and job satisfaction also has a significant impact on job performa...