In certain circumstances an individual may not be in control of their private location information and thus vulnerable to a privacy violation. In this paper, we ensure location privacy through the establishment of a prohibitive contract in a situation where an individual wishes to minimize privacy loss and a service provider aims to maximize profits. Given the possible strategies we show that a...

Retailers are under pressure to utilise eco-innovation improve their operations and reduce customers boycotts as a result of the growing concerns about environmental issues. Thus, this paper examines effect (i.e., reactive eco-innovation, proactive eco-innovation) on behaviours across various cultural environments. It also explores role ethical ideology idealism, relativism) relationship. Based...

Purpose: To explore the implications for all employees’ psychological contracts of a forced change from permanent to temporary employment status for some employees within an organisation. Methodology/Approach: A random sample of 30 employees, stratified by employment status was selected. Each employee undertook a structured card sort of possible emotional responses to change followed by an in-d...

nowadays, belief in the criteria and conditions of interactions with an organization to promote customer relationships is somehow tied to the organizational performance, and its final goal is of great importance. in the literature on organizational behavior, this belief is defined as the “psychological contract”. the intention of this mixed research is to identify and discover the contents of p...