This paper seeks to study work-related and geographical conditions under which innovativeness is stimulated through the analysis of individual regional data dating from just prior smartphone age. As a result, by using ISSP 2005 Work Orientations Survey, we are able examine role work flexibility, among other conditions, in relatively more traditional context that mostly excludes modern, smartpho...

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the vast blue expanse of ocean—the last frontier—is not as inexhaustible as it once seemed. While we have yet to fully explore the reaches of the sea, technology has granted humans the ability to harvest its wealth. We can now fi sh anywhere, at any depth, for any species. Like the American frontier range’s bison and wolf populations brought to the brin...

Economic integration between North and South Korea occurs through three modalities: traditional arm’s-length trade and investment, processing on commission (POC) trade, and operations within the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC). In order, these three modalities are characterized by decreasing exposure of South Korean fi rms to North Korean policy and infrastructure. Th rough a survey of 200 Sou...

Different subregions of nucleus accumbens (NAc) have been implicated in reward seeking, promoting flexible approach responses, suppressing nonrewarded actions, and facilitating shifts between different discrimination strategies. Interestingly, the NAc does not appear to mediate shifting between stimulus-reward associations (i.e., reversal learning) when reinforcement is predictable. How these n...

this study has been conducted to find solutions forincreasing work–life balance of employees of an automotive partsmanufacturer. for this reason by reviewing the literature we foundtwo main groups of parameters affecting wlb, including individualparameters (e.g. sex, age) and organizational parameters. we focusedon the second group in this study. we considered four parametersincluding workload,...