Sustainable development is a topic of particular interest in different nations around the world. In 2015, United Nations designed 2030 Agenda with 17 goals, including eradication poverty, combating climate change, and fostering sustainable cities communities, among others. Therefore, it essential to promote integration various social actors, as well public private spheres, order consolidate the...

This paper derives the Nash-equilibrium degrees of commitment to a partnership where lack of full commitment fuels suspicion and increases potential losses for partners. JEL classification: C72, D01, D80 Corresponding Author: Amnon Levy, Economics Discipline, School of Economics and Information Systems, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. Tel: 61-2-42213658 Fax: 61-2-4221...

In a sample of 302 business-school alumni, we found that relations between affective commitment and discretionary citizenship behaviour were contingent on criterion-relevant norms. Our findings suggest that affective commitment may increase one's motivation to comply with behavioural norms, regardless of whether the norms denote low or high performance. The practical and theoretical implication...

a random simple sample of 320 elementary school teachers ( 60 male 160 female) from district 1 of shiraz school system were selecte and implemented two scales: a) bass,s (1985) multifactor leadership questionnair (mlq); this instrument was translated into persian and its validity and reliability was re-confirmed by the researcher. b) maudy, steers, and porter,s commitment scale ( 1974), the val...

today, one of the most important features of any organization is a committed workforce with high emotional intelligence who want to be involved in the successful change. in other words, they should show the same organizational citizenship behaviors and organizational commitment.  the current study aims to investigate the impact of emotional intelligence on organizational citizenship behavior an...

The Business School of the Manchester Metropolitan University is one of the largest business schools in the UK comprising more than 150 academic staff organised into eleven thematic research groups. The Working Paper Series brings together research in progress from across the Business School for publication to a wider audience and to facilitate discussion. Working Papers are subject to a peer r...

BACKGROUND The authors argue that dental curricula in Latin America are noted for providing highly technical and individualistic training that may fail to address society's problems or instil in the dentist the idea that he/she has a social responsibility to contribute to his/her community. OBJECTIVES This study's main objectives were to determine whether the curriculum and the faculty teachi...