This paper presents a study of the conflict between engineers and marketers in high-tech companies in Britain, Canada and Sweden. The preliminary results suggest that the degree of conflict between engineers and marketers in Britain, Canada and Sweden is average or above average and that poor communications and distrust and a lack of understanding of marketing on the part of engineers are the m...

This paper argues how transparency can increase trust and therefore indirectly enhances the results of Public Private Partnerships in complex construction projects. Complex construction projects, e.g. large infrastructure or urban development projects, with public client organizations and private contractors, frequently run into problems. Public Private Partnership projects are characterised by...

social responsibility is a collection of duties and commitments the organization should undertake to preserve, treat and help the society in which it operates. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of experience mediator on the relationship between managers' social responsibility and customer loyalty in sport clubs. the research method was correlation- survey. the statistical...

the paper discusses study of kant's deontological ethics in organization and comparison of it with pillars of worldly ethic in organization and whether kant's ethics is compatible with them. kant's ethics is one of the most deontological theories in which intention and motive of action are basic roles. kant merely regarded the motive of action of moral rules, respect to them. kan...

While there is a lot of hype around various concepts associated with the term Web 2.0 in industry, little academic research has so far been conducted on the implications of these new approaches for the domain of education. Much of what goes by the name of Web 2.0 can in fact be regarded as a new kind of learning technologies, and can be utilised as such. This paper explains the background of We...

We propose a new theoretical framework for understanding simultaneous trust and distrust within relationships. grounded in assumptions of multidimensionality and the inherent tensions of relationships. and we separate this research from prior work grounded in assumptions of unidimensionality and balance. Drawing foundational support for this new framework from recent research on simultaneous po...

The research described in this paper is concerned with examining trust issues in global teams and whether there are any implications for trust in respect to the cultural orientation of firms. Trust is the individual’s (or group’s) belief that another individual (or group) makes good faith efforts to behave in accordance with any commitments both explicit and implicit. This research was carried ...