This study investigates the impact of rank on organizational commitment and explores the individual relationships between affective, normative and continuance commitment. The study comprised a sample of 505 academic staff from 28 privately-owned technical institutes in Haryana state, India. Three way ANOVA results reveal that overall organizational commitment increases progressively with rank. ...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of 3 post-match recovery modalities on physical performance, physiological measures, and players' perceptions of recovery after 90-minute soccer match play. On separate days, 28 young (age: 14.3 +/- 0.7 years) soccer players played 3 soccer matches each randomly followed by 1 of 3 recovery modalities: (a) CONT-cold (12 degrees C) water immersion...

This article examines and compares the survival rates of persons claiming retired-worker benefits at age 62 with those who did not. The study is based on a sample of Social Security insured workers who reached age 62 during the period 1962-72. The proportion of men dying in the initial years after age 62 was higher among those who claimed benefits at age 62 than among those who did not. The sam...

The fast proliferation of social networking sites (SNS) offers Internet users new possibilities for developing and maintaining their social network. Despite a growing interest in SNS, less research attention has been paid to SNS usage from the perspective of personality, that is, the Big Five personality traits. This study develops a model to elucidate how extraversion, an important dimension o...

The continuous growth of e-learning community has drawn a lot of attention from IS researchers. However, studies have shown that most electronic communities are facing the problems with retaining members and motivating them for active participation. Based on irretrievable investments and IS continuance model, we propose a theoretical model employing reputation, trust, social ties, perceived use...

With Android and iOS as the dominating operation systems, the growth of one player’s influence in the market translates into the loss of its opponent’s market share. In the marketing discipline, expectation confirmation theory is used to study how a consumer’s satisfaction influences his/her willingness to repurchase the product. Scholars extended the theory and developed a post-acceptance mode...

This paper examines the effects of resource complementarity and organizational compatibility on merger and acquisition (M&A) outcomes. We also explore the effect of firms' previous M&A experiences. Our investigation focuses on two classes of events following M&As: organizational dissolution and involvement in subsequent M&As, with the firm continuance following the M&A as the “non-event.” Using...

Romanian medicine has brought the world medicine a contribution that will last forever amongst universal values. George Emil Palade, Nicolae Constantin Paulescu, Ana Aslan, Stefan Odobleja, Thoma Ionescu, Sofia Ionescu, Dimitrie Bagdasar, Gheorghe Marinescu, Ion Cantacuzino, Victor Babes, Carol Davila, Matei Bals, C. C. Iliescu, Al. Trestioreanu, Marius Nasta, C. I. Parhon, N. Gh. Lupu, Mina Mi...

In spite of the increasing significance of broadband, many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are unaware of or unappreciative of its benefits. This is potentially a problem for governments, Internet Service Providers and other supply side institutions. The current study empirically verifies applicability of an extended IS continuance model controlling for organizational variables based on the...