Drawing on the social exchange theory, objective of this study is to examine employees’ perceptions cultural differences container shipping companies and its impact job performance. We also examined role leadership in relationship between Survey data collected from 740 employees six different countries including UK, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Mainland China, Taiwan. A hierarchical regressio...

Although a flurry of meta-analyses summarized the justice literature at the turn of the millennium, interest in the topic has surged in the decade since. In particular, the past decade has witnessed the rise of social exchange theory as the dominant lens for examining reactions to justice, and the emergence of affect as a complementary lens for understanding such reactions. The purpose of this ...

Social Presence (SP), i.e. the feeling of human warmth, is usually treated as a desirable outcome of interpersonal communication. This is in line with the current trend of Online Social Networks (OSN) where social interaction on basis of user profiles is being promoted. The rise of OSNs also includes enterprise software. While previous studies in this field deal with the question of adoption, t...

skopos theory ,as a functionalist approach, has made a notable switch from a lingusitic oriented to a more sociocultural concept of translation. initially proposed by vermeer, skopos theory framework has been applied by several researchers in their attempts to defend translators’ dignity and social status. yet; as far as the authors are concerned, no researcher has ever employed sociological th...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships among suppliers’ trust and commitment, transaction-specific investment, switching cost, and customer involvement within the context of relational governance mechanism and the social exchange theory. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use survey data from 214 Chinese manufacturing firms and employ the structural equat...

This essay attempts to use exchange and balance theories to explain philanthropy. For exchange, such theoretical components as attractions or rewards, costs, barriers and alternatives are invoked to make sense of the biography of a Chinese philanthropist in Hong Kong who donated two schools to remember his father and wife. The balance theory was also used, which argues that people do not seek t...

OBJECTIVES This research tests hypotheses from equity theory and social integration theory regarding the effect of social relationships on depressive symptoms. METHODS The data are based on a representative sample of people aged 60 and older from southern Brazil. The baseline sample consists of 871 subjects interviewed in 1995. Among those baseline subjects, 551 responded in 1999. Cross-secti...

This paper proposes that role stressors decrease helping behavior by undermining employees' normative commitment from a cognitive dissonance perspective and social exchange theory. We also propose two competitive assumptions of the moderating effect of perceived organizational support (POS). In this paper, we first examine these hypotheses in Study 1 and then verify the cognitive dissonance per...