We here provide examples that demonstrate how the model in "When Does Competition Foster Commitment" can be extended to cases in which 1) strategy-speci…c investments improve pro…tability by increasing demand rather than by reducing costs or 2) commitment also serves as a coordination device. Contacts: Ferreira, LSE, Department of Finance, and Kittsteiner, RWTH Aachen University, School of Busi...

Technological Education is a subject where students acquire knowledge and technical skills, which will enable them to analyse and resolve specific situations and will prepare them for an increasingly technological world. This course requires students to gain knowledge and know-how such that motivation and commitment are crucial for the development of classroom projects and activities. It is in ...

This paper provides a starting point for psychological research on the sense of commitment within the context of joint action. We begin by formulating three desiderata: to illuminate the motivational factors that lead agents to feel and act committed, to pick out the cognitive processes and situational factors that lead agents to sense that implicit commitments are in place, and to illuminate t...

OBJECTIVES This analysis presents the prevalence of substance use among young adolescents. The extent to which factors such as peer behaviour, parenting practices and school commitment and achievement are associated with drinking to intoxication and other drug use is investigated. DATA SOURCE The data are from the 1998/99 National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Analysis is based o...

This study was designed to explore the self and contextual factors for violence in two samples of school students and youth offenders in Macau. There were 3085 participants who were between 12 and 20 years old; 48.3% of them were male and 51.7% female. Findings revealed that youth offenders exhibited more violence than school students. For the self factors, while lower self-esteem and higher se...

The Western Australian School Health Project (WASH Project) is an intervention that encourages schools to develop comprehensive health promotion programs. The WASH Project works with self-selected school communities and uses community development strategies to support participating schools in identifying and responding to health concerns relevant to their students. The study reported here was d...

This paper sheds light commitments among seco used for the analysis was 1,462 using Taro Yamane Formula at 5% error to tolerance and 95% level of confidence . The main instrument used for data collecti questionnaire and interview 304 were returned. The descriptive research design was adopted were tested using Pearson’s product moment correlation coeffic regression statistical tools. The finding...