In this paper we outline the contours of a theory of organizational resilience as well as a research agenda. First, we identify how the notion of resilience has become increasingly important to all organizations and argue that organization theory currently does not reflect its importance. Second we reconcile varying definitions of resilience to create a definition of organizational resilience. ...

conclusions paying adequate attention to the antecedents of work engagement can enhance the quality of performance among nurses. additionally, rewards, organizational and supervisory supports, and job characteristics should be taken into consideration to establish work engagement among nurses. further researches are required to identify other probable antecedents and consequences of nursing wor...

Organizations are increasingly recognizing their workers as valuable resources. Therefore, workforce planning and policies that minimize the voluntary turnover of IT professionals are important. Using cognitive dissonance theory as a theoretical foundation, we propose and test research hypotheses that combine traditional voluntary turnover constructs with constructs of interest to the IT profes...

Interpersonal sensitivity refers to our ability to perceive and respond with care to the internal states (e.g., cognitive, affective, motivational) of another, understand the antecedents of those states, and predict the subsequent events that will result. This special issue brings together new research findings from empirical studies, including work with adults and children, genetics, functiona...

The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) is a model of information processing and persuasion. Ever since its introduction in the 1980’s, ELM has been frequently cited by scholars from both cognitive/social psychology and consumer research. This paper reviews the application of ELM to consumer research over the past decade, with the focus on studies conducted in advertising contexts, effects on br...

To reap the value in diverse teams, leaders may try to manipulate structuralinterdependence – through task design – to foster synergistic collaboration. However, ambiguityabout the nature and appropriate intersections of members’ unique and valuable cognitiveperspectives can make it difficult to fully anticipate collaborative activity in task design. Here,teams need emergent...

This paper explores the impact of the quality of a web site on the cognitive process leading to consumers’ emotions—considered as direct antecedents to shopping behaviors and operationalized as mental states of readiness arising from the appraisal of events. A parsimonious theoretical model was defined and tested with data collected from 215 web-shopping episodes during which consumers were sho...

In recent past, cognitive radio has come out to as a promising solution to the spectrum scarcity problem. It tends to increase the spectrum utilization by making use of underutilized frequencies with the help of dynamic spectrum allocation technique. In this paper, we present one such scheme for bandwidth allocation to cognitive radio. Our proposal helps the channel distributor to decide the qu...

This article meta-analytically summarizes the literature on training motivation, its antecedents, and its relationships with training outcomes such as declarative knowledge, skill acquisition, and transfer. Significant predictors of training motivation and outcomes included individual characteristics (e.g., locus of control, conscientiousness, anxiety, age, cognitive ability, self-efficacy, val...

Jerry Fodor (1985) has joked that philosophers have always been prone to eccentric worries such as an anxiety about the existence of tables and chairs, but with the issue of mental representation they have found a problem that is real and crucial for progress in the cognitive sciences. However, given Fodor’s ‘methodological solipsism’ of computational symbols and their ‘formality condition’, Ja...