Ambition is a commonly mentioned but poorly understood concept in social science research. The current study sought to contribute to understanding of the concept by developing and testing a model in which ambition is a middle-level trait (Cantor, 1990)—predicted by more distal characteristics but due to its teleological nature, more proximally situated to predict career success. Using a seven-d...

This study aims to: (1) introduce the concept of resilience to negative electronic word mouth (eWOM); and (2) examine a process model from self-congruity, brand attachment, prestige, eWOM using moderation mediation model. A time-lag approach was conducted collect data, involving 312 students two universities in Jakarta. Moderation hierarchical regression macro is used test hypothesis. The resul...

for the first time in English an authentic treatise on this subject. Such a work could only be the product of a master of his subject and Palmer Findley has long been recognized as a leader in American Obstetrics. Bearing in mind that "History is the essence of innumerable biographies" the author has used this approach to the subject with great effectiveness. The great personalities of obstetri...

This paper aims to identify whether different weighted PageRank algorithms can be applied to author citation networks to measure the popularity and prestige of a scholar from a citation perspective. Information Retrieval (IR) was selected as a test field and data from 1956-2008 were collected from Web of Science (WOS). Weighted PageRank with citation and publication as weighted vectors were cal...

In contrast to established musicians, lesser-known composers have received scant attention in art music scholarship. This article, based on an ethnographic study, considers how a group of British composers construed ideas of success and prestige, which I analyse in terms of anthropological writings on exchange, Bourdieusian symbolic economies, and Foucauldian notions of disciplinary power. Pres...

Language, arguably the cognitive capacity that distinguishes humans, is a dynamic complex adaptive system whose structure and evolution is influenced by a host of factors. This paper takes a population dynamics approach to investigate the diffusion of linguistic variants in populations, focusing on the effect of differential prestige of linguistic variants and of speakers. A novel method that c...

The modern knowledge worker is faced with managing their time across multiple projects. To ensure the successful completion of one project, the worker might be inclined to put more time into that project than was originally intended, at the expense of other projects with which they are involved. This paper looks at the impact of this type of strategic behavior on the output of research teams. O...

Using Stokes’s (1997) “quadrant model of scientific research,” this paper deals with how the entrepreneurial orientation of scientists affects their scientific performance by considering its impact on scientific production (number of publications), scientific prestige (number of forward citations), and breadth of research activities (interdisciplinarity). The results of a quantitative analysis ...