PURPOSE Belief in conspiracy theories about societal events is widespread among citizens. The extent to which conspiracy beliefs about managers and supervisors matter in the micro-level setting of organizations has not yet been examined, however. We investigated if leadership styles predict conspiracy beliefs among employees in the context of organizations. Furthermore, we examined if such orga...

Parenting styles, which are known to have a significant effect on children's development, also have a significant effect on children's Internet use. This study was designed to demonstrate how parenting styles in relation to Internet use are perceived by children and parents and how these styles affect children's Internet use. Both qualitative and quantitative data-collection techniques were use...

This study aims to determine how emotional intelligence, self-confidence, and leadership styles affect well Pakistani psychologists do their jobs. In order this, a sample of 210 was polled about various styles, including authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire. The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), the Self-Confidence Scale (SCS), Leadership Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) ...

A meta-analysis of 45 studies of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles found that female leaders were more transformational than male leaders and also engaged in more of the contingent reward behaviors that are a component of transactional leadership. Male leaders were generally more likely to manifest the other aspects of transactional leadership (active and pass...

The platform economy has been a hot issue all over the world, especially in china. The Chinese capital market has witnessed substantial cases of mergers and acquisitions among those platforms recent years. Three IT industry giants in China,BAT(Baidu,Alibaba,Tecent), are all developing towards gigantic system of various platforms through purchasing related small platforms or investing in some ne...

We show that a one-sector real business cycle model with mild increasing returns-to-scale, variable capital utilization and saddle-path stability is able to produce qualitatively realistic business cycles driven solely by disturbances to government purchases. Due to an endogenous increase in labor productivity, a positive spending shock can lead to simultaneous increases in output, consumption,...