In this paper I study the relationship between political democracy, interstate rivalry, and militarized interstate conflict. Past research has shown dyadic democracy to have a strong pacifying effect on relations between states; democracies have rarely if ever gone to war against each other. Much of the research in this area has been static and cross-sectional in nature, though, overlooking the...

The theme for this year’s conference is “Democracy in a Knowledge Economy.” This certainly is a timely and relevant theme from a global and national perspective. It envelops some of our core values as organizational change and development scholars and practitioners. This theme invites us all to contemplate, question, theorize, and imagine how organizations can be tools for democracy and involve...

This study examined the effect of hearing status on role salience and anticipated work-family relations among 101 unmarried young adults aged 20-33 years: 35 with hearing loss (19 hard of hearing and 16 deaf) and 66 hearing. Participants completed the Life Role Salience scale, anticipated conflictual relations scale, anticipated facilitory relations scale, and a background questionnaire. The de...

Affirmative answers are given to two questions of international politics: Do the parsimonious postulates of structure theory imply any mode of behavior for states, as claimed by the theory of neorealism? Does a principle of the harmony of interests exist for states, as asserted by idealist theories? Answers emanating from an n-person game theoretic model, which portrays states as security maxim...

BACKGROUND Central to most theories of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is the notion that the family environment interacts with genetically-based vulnerabilities to influence the development of BPD, with particular attention given to risk conferred by conflictual familial relations. However, the extent to which family conflict may relate to the development of BPD via related interpersonal...

Recent research has shown that interstate rival adversaries account for most interstate conflict, and that militarized relations between rivals become more conflictual as the adversaries accumulate longer histories of conflict. The existing research on rivalry, though, has focused almost exclusively on militarized relations between rivals; little is known about non-militarized or cooperative re...

Redress is an important customer support mechanism in B2C e-business to win customer confidence in online purchases. Although some form of redress has been considered in different parts of the world, it is still at an inception stage regarding its application to B2C e-business. This paper introduces redress and provides an explanation of themes related to redress in B2C e-business identified fr...

This paper discusses the relationship between social movements and corporate governance practices in large firms in Norway and Sweden in the post-war period. It presents two paradoxical outcomes and tries to make sense of them. The theoretical argument is that structural features (national trajectories, shared cultures, industrial structure) alone cannot explain the choice of management strateg...