This paper presents the impact of actor groups in the development of new mobile services. We have taken a micro view and collected actual data from a standardization process to contrast the general macro perspective in use. We develop four metrics; strength, openness, depth and efficiency to measure the impact of groups. Our findings indicate that contrary to popular belief the manufacturers an...

We present a new approach to the study of multiplier ideals in a local, two-dimensional setting. Our method allows us to deal with of ideals, graded systems of ideals and plurisubharmonic functions in a unified way. Among the applications are a formula for the complex integrability exponent of a plurisubharmonic function in terms of Kiselman numbers, and a proof of the “openness conjecture” by ...

Theoretically, this paper draws on political agency theory to formulate hypotheses. Empirically, it shows that political institutions have a role in explaining the prevalence of political corruption in American states. In the states, a set of democracies where the rule of law is relatively well established and the confounding effects of differing electoral systems and regimes are absent, instit...

According to the social identity Theory, leadership group prototypicality have an important effect in employee’s group identity, work attitude and employee well-being. In this article, we explore the mechanism between leadership group prototypicality and employee well-being to understand how leadership group prototypicality works. We had a sample of 336 employees to test our hypothesis in commu...

This paper compares and contrasts the determinants of outward foreign direct investment from the People’s republic of China (PrC) with those of outward foreign direct investment from Japan, republic of Korea, and Taipei,China. The paper examines descriptively and econometrically the motives and factors behind the investment abroad from these four Asian economies. The hypotheses being tested inc...

It has been suggested that personality factors are related to an individuals’ use of social networking sites (SNSs). The present research explores the relationships between the Big Five Personality factors, narcissism, self-esteem, and sensation seeking and individuals’ use of specific features of SNS. Self-reports were collected from 265 SNS users from a university in China. Regression analyse...

Article history: Received 16 September 2012 Received in revised form 14 November 2013 Accepted 23 November 2013 Available online 6 December 2013 JEL classification: F22 J61 O4

The research project uses words provided by first year South African university students describing their own personalities. These words are used to compare the personalities of computing and noncomputing students on the basis of the Five-Factor Model. The researchers used qualitative methods to code and group the words in terms of the Five-Factor Model, then used statistical methods to analyse...

Using the British Household Panel Survey we examine how the Big Five personality traits – openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism – affect wages. We estimate mean and quantile pay gaps between people with low and high levels of each of the Big Five, and decompose these pay gaps in the part explained by differences in workers’ characteristics and i...