When foreign waves hit home shores: Organizational identification in psychological contract breach–violation relationships during international assignments

Supplier Capabilities and eSourcing Relationships: A Psychological Contract Perspective

The forces of globalization have influenced organizations to extend the concept of IT outsourcing to IT-intensive business process outsourcing (eSourcing). Most of the research on managing outsourcing relationships has focused either on legal contracts or on strategic partnerships. Advocating a different viewpoint, researchers like Rousseau (1995) found that in reality everyday working of contr...

Relationships between Transformational and Active Transactional Leadership and Followers’ Organizational Identification: The Role of Psychological Empowerment

We examined the underlying processes through which transformational and active transactional leadership affects followers’ organizational identification in a survey study. Using a sample of managers across different industries, we found that followers’ psychological empowerment, including competence, impact, meaning, and selfdetermination, partially mediated the effect of transformational leade...

Chapter 7 : International Assignments

When Katrina hit California

[1] Beamforming of seismic noise recorded on 150 Southern California stations was used to identify body and surface waves generated by Katrina. Surface wave microseisms are commonly associated with oceanic storms; there are no previous comprehensive body wave observations. The temporal evolution of the surface and body waves was different, indicating a different source mechanism for the two wav...

Living in Home Quarantine: Analyzing Psychological Experiences of College Students during Covid-19 pandemic

Background and Aim: The Covid-2019 is a pneumonia that onset on December 31, 2019 in Wuhan, China, and then swept the world. Following the disease in Iran, people began a new life in quarantine to be safe. Quarantine life is accompanied by psychological, social and economic consequences, and its implementation requires the support, supervision and adherence of the country's medical staff. This ...