Despite extensive research on the role of negative affect (NA) in causing interpersonal deviance, positive (PA) remains unclear. Responding to call for more nuanced effects PA, this study explores neglected facet agentic rather than communal aspect, predicting deviance. Drawing upon regulatory focus theory and social labeling theory, we explore how PA predicts We further propose that relationsh...

Role of employee commitment is always been accepted as an active catalyst for improving organizational satisfaction. In this research employee satisfaction is taken as dependent variable and employee commitment is employed as independent variable, whereas employee performance is used as moderating variable. Sample for this study is selected from employees working in various private and public o...

Four hypotheses relevant to the contingency theory of management accounting are presented. Data relate to the period 1994–98 for a sample of new Scottish microfirms. First, correlation analysis is applied to test the hypothesis that the introduction of management accounting system (MAS) developments is related to the timing of contingent events such as cashflow crises, shortfalls of finance, an...

Optimal taxation under income uncertainty has been extensively developed in expected utility theory, but it is still open for inseparable utility function between income and effort. As an alternative of decision-making under uncertainty, prospect theory (Kahneman and Tversky (1979), Tversky and Kahneman (1992)) has been obtained empirical support, for example, Kahneman and Tversky (1979), and C...

In this paper we are interested in the decision problem faced by an agent when requesting bids for collections of tasks with complex time constraints and interdependencies. In particular, we study the problem of specifying an appropriate schedule for the tasks in the request for bids. We expect bids to require resource commitments, so we expect different setting of time windows to solicit diffe...

Abstract What determines the bargaining power of states in international trade negotiations? The literature focuses predominantly on economic strength as determinant power. However, this explanation neglects reality modern trade, which is characterized by globalization production and high levels interdependence. I argue that interdependence undermines effect states. Specifically, hypothesize de...

Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast, we propose that humans’ species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species-unique forms of cognition, communication, and social life—all derive from mutualistic collaboration (with social selection against cheaters). In a first step, humans became obligate collaborative foragers such that indi...

In this study, a multicultural sample of university students enrolled in an immersion course Language Sciences responded to the Strategy Inventory for Learning provide data about their language learning strategy preferences. The outcomes reveal preference metacognitive and cognitive strategies as well social compensation strategies. Memory affective are significantly less used. A interdependenc...

Today's most pressing social challenges require people to recognize their shared fate and work together--to think and act interdependently. In the three studies reported here, we found that appeals for increased interdependence may undermine the very motivation they seek to inspire. We examined the hypothesis that invoking interdependent action undermines motivation for chronically independent ...