We extend the logical model of agency known as the KGP model, to support agents with normative concepts, based on the roles an agent plays and the obligations and prohibitions that result from playing these roles. The proposed framework illustrates how the resulting normative concepts, including the roles, can evolve dynamically during the lifetime of the agent. Furthermore, we illustrate how t...

BACKGROUND The objective was to determine whether the pattern of environmental and genetic influences on deviant personality scores differs from that observed for the normative range of personality, comparing results in adolescent and adult female twins. METHODS A sample of 2,796 female adolescent twins ascertained from birth records provided Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire data. The...

background: a nurse’s commitment is the most important factor that influences her performance and depends on other variables. the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between length of service of the nurses with the amount of occupational commitment and organizational commitment. methods: from winter 2012 to spring 2013, 266 nurses were chosen in selected hospitals of social s...

In recent years, environmental concerns have led to a significant increase in the number and scope of compliance imperatives across all global regulatory environments. The complexity and geographical diversity of these environments has caused considerable problems for organizations, particularly those in high-technology industries. This paper first employs institutional theory to help understan...

The environmental concerns are leading to the growing interest in the adoption of Green IS. From legitimacy perspective, this paper argues that the adoption and diffusion of Green IS among organizations are modulated by pragmatic, normative, and cultural-cognitive influences in the institutional environment. The study therefore applies topology of legitimacy to develop a taxonomy to understand ...

Based on institutional theory, I extend research on the regulative role of national government in society, and suggest that government exerts important influences on firms‘ actions through the diffusion of norms. I suggest that by instituting the Council on Ethics which publicly ―censors‖ and ―certifies‖ the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund‘s cross-border investments, the Norwegian government co...

Background: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has been recommended as a cognitive screening tool for clinical practice and research in Parkinson’s disease (PD), yet no normative data have been published for MoCA in PD without dementia.     Methods: We undertook a pooled secondary analysis of data from two studies (one cross-sectional design and one clinical trial) conducted in the East ...

Many multichannel retailers are now offering customers the option to place their orders online and then pick them up from the retailers’ physical stores. As a relatively new type of multichannel retail service, the factors that influence consumers to use “online order/in-store pickup” (OOIP) remains largely unknown. This study uses the Behavioral Reasoning Theory to examine the factors that inf...

Purpose: This paper seeks to answer two research questions which are " What are key factors which influence Chinese to adopt mobile technology? " and " Do these key factors differ from factors which are identified from Western context? " Design/methodology: The findings from a pilot study with 45 in-depth interviews are used to develop questionnaires and test across 800 residents from the three...