This current study aimed at investigating the effects of gender (male versus female) and age (younger versus older) on consumer ethnocentrism and animosity in Indonesia in regard to eight opposed countries. Based on the ANOVA test, the findings showed that female and young consumers have a higher political and economical animosity; while female and old consumers tend to have higher ethnocent...

The previous chapter examined several cases where local SMEs (i.e., gift providers) enhanced their business motivation or skills through providing gifts for Hometown Tax Donation, a system unlike conventional SME support policies. If similar can be found in other regions nationwide, this may offer political implications creating an ecosystem that initiates much-needed regional entrepreneurship ...

Green innovation is an important step for enterprises in heavy polluting industries to break through the original crude development model and make leap sustainable operation. As decision makers, executives’ home country identification affects their environmental awareness motivation resource access advantage. Based on dual perspective of conscious access, this paper aims investigate influence m...

A principal concern regarding nationalist sentiment is the tendency to sanctify “the nation” and support it as chosen pure regardless of its complicity in injustice. Building on research showing whitewash America’s past primarily localized white Americans, particularly those who stress Christian heritage, we theorize nationalism amplifies Americans’ willingness endorse “blind patriotism” (suppo...

JEL Classification: I120, Z130 Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant positive effect on survival probabilities and that the closer the ties...

“The goal for both [physicians] and musicians is the satisfaction of bringing order out chaos.”1Paraphrased from Kennedy, R. Medical Musicians. Interlude.https://interlude.hk/medical-musicians/Date accessed: May 23, 2023Google Scholar With professional as a daughter son-in-law, I am privileged to benefit greatly ad hoc performances that cover many musical genres. This got me thinking about how ...