Because of the paramount importance of job satisfaction and due to its main consequences such as reduction of work absence and resignation, personnel promotion and society’s health, and more importantly, its role in achievement of organization goals, this study aimed at investigating the effects of six social factors including personnel’s belief, salary and benefits, participation in organizati...

game theoretic models in political science frequently suggest that the outcomes of bargaining processes in democratic systems should be significantly influenced by the precise character of proposal and veto opportunities, on the one hand, and by informational asymmetries that exist among participants, on the other. In parliamentary systems, although the cabinet is widely recognized as the centr...

Background and purpose - There is increasing evidence that several commonly performed surgical procedures provide little advantage over nonoperative treatment, suggesting that doctors may sometimes be inappropriately optimistic about surgical benefit when suggesting treatment for individual patients. We investigated whether attitudes to risk influenced the choice of operative treatment and nono...

Abstract Does democratisation promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries. Firms to Suharto lost substantial market share following his resignation. Industries in which family firms larger during tenure exhibited weak improvements broader ...