Share repurchases have been widely used in global markets for years various purposes such as to pay out cash, stabilize stock prices, and so on. However, their use has recently challenged due the economic financial uncertainty imposed by COVID-19 outbreak. Not only governments put bans or restrictions on repurchasing transactions but also some major companies themselves suspended buyback progra...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to determine the role of proactive personality in entrepreneurial intentions and career success. methods: this study was a descriptive-correlatal research. the statistical population of the study was all the personnel's isfahan university of medical sciences were been selected from which a sample of 308 employees randomly. the questionnaires of this r...

Repeat customers are fi ve times more profi table than new customers. Internet vendors have to retain customers to reap the benefi ts of repeat sales, but more than 50 percent of repeat customers seldom complete a third purchase. One reason is the inability of on-line vendors to manage customers’ changing expectations. Vendors need to understand the decision calculus of repeat customers at ever...

Groups of intelligent agents are studied in several subareas of Artificial Intelligence, notably, autonomous agents, multiagent planning and action, discourse understanding, and cooperative work. I motivate and present a formal theory of the intentions of a group of agents that analyzes the intentions of a group in terms of its internal organization, and the intentions of its members. This theo...

Utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as a framework for understanding employee intentions to support organizational change, this study examined the extent to which attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control (PBC), as well as the interactive effect of group norm and ingroup identification, predicted intentions to carry out change-supportive activities. It also was hypo...

Dialogue systems need to be able to understand a user’s communicative intentions, reason with those intentions, form their own communicative intentions, and realize those intentions with actual language to be uttered to the user. Oftentimes in dialogue systems, however, what these communicative intentions actually correspond to is never clearly defined. We propose a descriptive model of dialogu...

In the literature of collective intentions, the ‘we-intentions’ that lie behind cooperative actions are analysed in terms of individual mental states. The core forms of these analyses imply that all Nash equilibrium behaviour is the result of collective intentions, even though not all Nash equilibria are cooperative actions. Unsatisfactorily, the latter cases have to be excluded either by stipu...

While intentions are at the center of communication theories such as Relevance Theory, and also of theories of action in general, the interaction between communicative and non-communicative intentions has not been much investigated within the relevance-theoretic framework. This paper discusses Bratman’s (1987) Theory of Planning, which recognizes the critical role of intentions in governing our...