Electronic contracts are a means of representing agreed responsibilities and expected behaviour of autonomous agents acting on behalf of businesses. They can be used to regulate behaviour by providing negative consequences, penalties, where the responsibilities and expectations are not met, i.e. the contract is violated. However, long-term business relationships require some flexibility in the ...

A psychological contract is an agreement between the employer and an employee that covers the parties’ informal and frequently non-verbalized obligations and expectations towards each other. The contract is a cognitive pattern-governing employee’s behaviour in the organization. A gap between employee’s expectations and the organizational reality may lead to difficult-tosolve conflicts or cause ...

To study the recessive drain of college teachers is meaningful in practice. This paper, in perspective of psychological contract, analyzes the characteristics of psychological contracts of college teachers, the relationship between psychological contract breaches and recessive drain of college teachers, and the influencing factors of contract breaches, advancing relevant countermeasures for dea...

In the sharing economy market, B2B relationships between service providers and platforms are largely built on platforms' promise of ensuring a successful experience, which is not always delivered. Moreover, have opportunity to take advantage their dominant positions in market. Despite growing number studies dark side economy, little known about psychological contract breach opportunism context ...

Children between the ages of 3 and 10 years were presented with a set of pictures representing a contract with bilateral cheating options between a parent and child (Study 1) and between 2 peers (Study 2). The children had to (a) evaluate which situations violated the contract when the relevant information was presented, (b) anticipate the feelings of the violator and the victim, and (c) infer ...

In the light of social exchange theory, our study aimed to explore impact psychological contract violation on survivors’ turnover intention, specifically in a downsizing context. We put forth moderated mediation model uncover mediating role organizational commitment, as well boundary conditions support and emotional susceptibility moderating mechanism. To test hypotheses, we surveyed 202 out 27...

The psychological contract is a very well know topic amongst academics and practitioners. The majority of the literature sheds light to most of the areas of the psychological contract but lies heavily on larger organizations and mainly assessing the employee side. In this paper we investigate the existence of the psychological contract contrary to popular research in the field of small business...