Business transactions within the Muslim world have received only limited attention from International Business scholars. This exploratory study investigates whether a shared adherence to the Islamic tradition can reduce perceived cultural distance between countries, thus affecting the internationalisation pattern of firms. The experiences of six smalland medium-sized enterprises in the electron...

In-group favoritism in social dilemma situations is one of the main findings of studies in Social Identity Theory. We investigate what causes the in-group bias: is it due to mere group affiliation or, alternatively, is guilt-aversion a possible explanation? We induce group membership in a minimal group setting, observe in-/out-group transfers and elicit respective beliefs. We find that mere gro...

The social behavior of 208 mentally retarded residents in 18 group homes was observed and analyzed in terms of their (a) informal grouping behavior, (b) affiliation, and (c) intense social relationships ("friendships"). Moderately to mildly retarded residents engaged in "social" types of behavior in groups (primarily dyads) and "neutral" types of behavior when alone. In contrast, profoundly ret...

Flutra Jahiu Authors country of origin: North Macedonia Institutional affiliation: Faculty member Business Administration Department at the State University Tetovo. Email address: [email protected] ABSTRACT The importance this paper lies in addressing consequences Covid-19 virus on small business Serbia. As businesses are most prevalent non-financial

It has been a longstanding assumption that the threat of extra-group conflict can promote the expression of socio-positive behavior and cohesion within animal groups. I conducted a comparative analysis on the effect of inter-group conflict (indexed by home range overlap) on within-group affiliation levels (indexed by time engaged in allogrooming) in a sample of 48 primate species. There was no ...

Privacy-preserving techniques are increasingly important in our highly computerized society where privacy is both precious and elusive. Affiliation-Hiding Authenticated Key Exchange (AH-AKE) protocols offer an appealing service: authenticated key agreement coupled with privacy of group memberships of protocol participants. This type of service is essential in privacy-conscious p2p systems, mobi...

The present study inspects the comparative effects of inside shareholding on firm value for group-affiliated firms and non-group-affiliated in Pakistan. research uses excess-value as a performance measure by employing chop-shop approach treatment regression model (TERM). results reveal that lower level higher negatively associated with firms’ value. However, it positively relates at moderate le...

Affiliation-Hiding Authentication (AHA) protocols have the seemingly contradictory property of enabling users to authenticate each other as members of certain groups, without revealing their affiliation to group outsiders. Of particular interest in practice is the group-discovering variant, which handles multiple group memberships per user. Corresponding solutions were only recently introduced,...