Background and Purpose: What drives some athletes to achieve at the highest level whilst other athletes fail to achieve their physical potential? Why does the ‘fire’ burn so brightly for some elite athletes and not for others? A good understanding of an athlete’s motivation is critical to a coach designing an appropriate motivational climate to realize an athlete’s physical talent. This paper e...

We are grateful to Christine Beckman. Gerald Davis, Monica Higgins. Muir MacPherson, and Edward Zajac for providing insightful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We also thank Donald Palmer and the anonymous ASQ reviewers for their constructive feedback and valuable suggestions on the paper, and we thank Piruze Sabuncu for her assistance in data collection. In this study, we consider the...

Regimes controlled by a rich elite often collapse and make way for democracy amidst widespread social unrest. Such regime changes are often followed by redistribution to the poor at the expense of the former elite. We argue that the reason why the elite may have to resort to full-scale democratization, despite its apparent costs to themselves, may be that lesser concessions would be viewed as a...

We appreciate Dirk Berg-Schlosser’s discussion of our article. He makes a number of positive comments and also expresses some doubts, raising important issues that should be clarified. In this limited space, we will not address all of the diverse matters he discusses, but will concentrate on his major points. Berg-Schlosser expresses concerns about our measurements, arguing that the indicators ...

AIMS To examine the relationship between athlete drinking motives and hazardous drinking across differing levels of sporting participation (club vs elite-provincial vs elite-international). METHODS Data from 1214 New Zealand sportspeople was collected. We assessed hazardous drinking with the WHO's AUDIT questionnaire and sportspeople's psychosocial reasons for drinking with the ADS. Level of ...

In many communities there is an elite, a relatively small group of participants that is well connected and highly influential. In order to understand the whole community and the underlying mechanisms it is hence very helpful to study the characteristics and the emergence of the elite. In the past it has been shown that various social networks exhibit surprisingly similar properties, like power ...

Most existing studies on the fertility transition focus either on macro-level trends or on micro-level patterns with limited geographic scope. Much less attention has been given to the interplay between individual characteristics and contextual conditions, including geographic location. This paper contributes to closing this research gap. We investigate the relevance of geography and socioecono...

Although the role of IT is salient in sporting mega-events (e.g. instant replay, goal-line technology), IS research has not yet paid any attention to the processes by which technologies are selected for and implemented at these mega-events, the strategies used by actors, nor the consequences of such implementations on actors in related sectors and industries. To tackle this underdeveloped resea...

elite's trust is an important part of the social capital in a social system that can lead to further system goals. relationship and influence on students by the professors of universities has an important place for them among the elite. subject of this article is the trust of university professors in islamic republic of iran (iri). essential questions focused on various aspects of professo...