Civic (as opposed to ethnic) definitions of national identity are believed to foster inclusion of others in the national ingroup when people show commitment to the nation. Social psychological research on social identity and organisational citizenship has conceptualised commitment in terms of civic participation and more symbolic support (e.g. loyalty, taking pride in the group). However, littl...

Incorporating commitment theory from social psychology and management science literature, this paper proposes a IS continuance model that explains users’ intention to continuously use IS technologies. We argue that users’ intention to continue using a IS technology (i.e., IS continuance) is determined by their commitment to that specific technology and moderated by the brand-specific technology...

Scholars have argued that credible commitment institutions have important impacts on political outcomes as diverse as economic growth and social order. If commitment institutions function as theorized, then their effects should vary across individuals, groups, or states, based on their respective vulnerability to promise breaking. Yet existing empirical studies never pursue this implication. Th...

One of the important features of this study is to examine the moderating effect of national culture on the bonding-commitment link. Results reveal that individualism moderates the bondingcommitment relationship. In more collectivist societies, social bonding has a stronger effect on commitment whereas in cultures characterized as individualistic, structural bonding has a stronger effect on comm...

The analytic enquiry of deontic modalities (obligatory, permitted, etc.) has been developed before and independently of the logic modelling of mental attitudes, of cognitive agent architecture, and of social interaction; it taken place following the blue print of non-deontic modalities (necessary; possible). We might consider this kind of approach and this use of the logic as basically anti-men...

Currently, agent designers and programmers must work extensively to design, describe, test and implement the communication protocols used in multi agent systems. The design of the protocols is on an imperative basis. The potential exists for the designer and programmer to play a smaller role, though. This role would simply be to input a description of required activities, or to describe it decl...

This article develops an economic theory of expressive law. By expressing social values, law can tip a system of social norms into a new equilibrium. This process can create or destroy a social norm without changing individual values. In addition, law can change the individual values of rational people. Internalizing a social norm is a moral commitment that attaches a psychological penalty to a...