Inter-organizational citizenship collaborative behavior (OCCB) is critical for project team members to share information and integrate resources. However, prior studies found that high OCCBs are absent in teams. This study aims explore social exchange approaches promote members’ the construction from perspective. A questionnaire survey was undertaken online. two-stage SEM conducted verify measu...

Abstract The present study contributes to the literature by examining association between personal values (PVs), assessed with Schwartz’s Portrait Values Questionnaire, and empathy, Davis’ Interpersonal Reactivity Index, in a sample of first-year medical students. We also examined students’ PVs profile gender differences terms PVs. All participants ( N = 398) were Italian, young (average age 19...

Participation banks (PBs) are distinct from other in that they operate on an interest-free principle. This study aims to investigate the behavioural aspects of individual customers who prefer PBs when choosing a bank. The covers 12 regional levels throughout Turkey determined by Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). A multidimensional measurement model has been created can measure PB custom...

Growing Pains:Quaker Benevolence and School Expansion in Philadelphia's Educational Marketplace, 1689–1798 Grant Scribner (bio) Abstract In 1689, Quaker leaders opened the first Friends school Philadelphia to educate their children an environment aligned with values. The Board of Overseers more schools over course eighteenth century began educating non-Quakers students who could not afford pay ...

Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in actual politics and rational choice analyses of terrorism. But there are superior strategies to deterrence. One is to make terrorist attacks less attractive. Another to raise the opportunity cost – rather than the material cost – to terrorists. These alternative strategies effectively dissuade potential terrorists. The strateg...

The authors compared personality correlates of creative achievement and wise performance in middle-age women of a longitudinal study. In Q-sort descriptions, originality and ambition were particularly salient in creative individuals, whereas meaningmaking and benevolence were salient in wise individuals. Inventory measures of openness, unconventionality, ambition, and autonomy at age 21 predict...

of their medical efficiency and soundness of administration, the voluntary hospitals in this country had been brought to the brink of ruin by circumstances quite beyond their own control. Beds had been closed, important branches of healing discontinued, and many schemes of development abandoned. By a great and exceptional effort of public benevolence made now, the vitality of this cherished nat...