Many emergent ventures, such as social networks, leverage crowd-sourced information assets as essential pillars supporting their business models. The appropriation of rights to information assets through legal contracts often fails to prevent conflicts between the users and the companies that claim information rights. In this paper, we focus on social networks and examine why those conflicts ar...

This thesis starts from the fuzzy sets and related concepts of Psychological Contract which includes its notion, content, dimension, formation and violation of the Psychological Contract. The writer puts forward some opinions on the basis of previous research achievements by native and foreign scholars. At the same time, the drawbacks, research focal points and trends in the future are pointed ...

This research investigated the relationships among pre-entry expectations, post-entry experiences and psychological contract violations. The goal was to clarify the conceptual distinctions between the constructs and to test their differential impact on job satisfaction. In a national longitudinal study, 235 final-year occupational therapy students were surveyed immediately prior to entering the...

We examine whether psychological contract theory and social response theory can explain users’ responses to e-commerce recommendation agents (RAs). Theories of social response to technology, trust in technology, and technology adoption are used to adapt psychological contract theory to explain user-RA relationship. We theorize that a psychological contract breach will cause a negative emotional...

the obligation to disclose essential information is important either in theoretical and practical approach. this means that in order to enjoy the necessary knowledge to achieve decision-making and formation of contract, the information that is effective to create legal consent should be revealed to the opposite side. in franchise agreement; violation of this obligation that is one of accessorie...