Contemporary academic environment can be characterized by an overwhelming trend toward enhancing research productivity and knowledge creation. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of radical social change and subsequent institutional pressures on internationally relevant knowledge creation. The setting examined is business and economics science in Eastern Europe. Using a case stud...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, using some conventional concepts and procedures from the discipline of economics, the economic rationale for governments to have suicide prevention policies. This is a conceptual paper, which proceeds in a theoretical fashion. The part of the economics literature that is relevant to this task is welfare (or normative) economics, not positive or empir...

Abstract Economics games such as the Dictator and Public Goods Games have been widely used to measure ethnic bias in political science economics. Yet these tools may fail intended because they are vulnerable self-presentational concerns and/or capture rooted more automatic associative affective reactions. We examine a set of misattribution-based approaches, adapted from social psychology, that ...

This editorial introduces a special section of the journal on ecological economics: The next 30 years consisting 20 different articles from broad range contributors. It explores common themes including uncertainty, normative goals sustainable scale and just distribution, collective action, co-evolution, transdisciplinarity need for radical systemic change. Drawing our own vision EE, we use mult...

Among most economists, political scientists, and sociologists, it is taken for granted that the rational choice approach is a predictive methodology, and its strengths and weaknesses are judged in relation to that purpose. However, the rational choice model of action is found in a far wider range of disciplines across academia, and the purpose for which it is adopted varies greatly, with predic...

Social anxiety is a psychological disorder affected by cognitive aspects of person. The aim of study was to investigate the role of informational, normative, and avoidance identity styles in predicting the variance of social anxiety amongst Iranian medical science students. Using stratified sampling method, one hundred and twenty students were selected from each of the colleges of medicine, pha...