This paper uses the social identity theory and the theory of planned behavior to explore factors affecting consumer purchase intentions. Additionally, considering the theory of the extended self, this paper tries to (1) evaluate whether consumers’ perception of a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment has a critical effect on their purchase decisions and (2) test that perceptio...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers how well an individual’s handle herself or himself and others instead of their technical skills to solve the problem. Creativity makes the individual to think deeply and manage their emotions while applying new knowledge in their organization. A positive attitude toward training and working environment can develop the employee’s emotional intelligence and crea...

Based on social exchange theory, a vast body of research has applied trust-commitment theory to explain marketing relationships and to predict their outcome in industrial contexts. Affective commitment in particular has drawn much attention. A review of the literature shows that the research in the field is both scattered and fragmented. Further, the cultural context surrounding the relationshi...

One of the important features of this study is to examine the moderating effect of national culture on the bonding-commitment link. Results reveal that individualism moderates the bondingcommitment relationship. In more collectivist societies, social bonding has a stronger effect on commitment whereas in cultures characterized as individualistic, structural bonding has a stronger effect on comm...

Social commitments in time: Satisfied or compensated was the title of a presentation given at the 7th DALT workshop edition [34] in which we proposed a layered architecture for modeling and reasoning about social commitments. We gave emphasis to modularity and to the need of accommodating certain temporal aspects in order for a commitment modeling framework to be flexible enough to adapt to div...

BACKGROUND Researchers have long recognized the importance of a central government's political "commitment" in order to mount an effective response to HIV. The concept of political commitment remains ill-defined, however, and little guidance has been given on how to measure this construct and its relationship with HIV-related outcomes. Several countries have experienced declines in HIV infectio...

Less than ten years ago, the science of humility seemed stuck with intractable measurement problems. However, due to theoretical innovations, measures have proliferated in recent years. In order to avoid fragmentation, humility science faces a critical stage of needing to reconcile and integrate definitions and measures. In Chapter 1, I review 22 measures of humility, including (a) survey measu...

Article history: Received 10 March 2010 Available online 16 September 2010 This study tested the mediating role of violation in the relationship between breach and both affective and continuance commitment and the extent to which this mediating role is moderated by exchange imbalance amongst a sample of 103 sales personnel. Results suggest that violation mediated the relationship between breach...

The analytic enquiry of deontic modalities (obligatory, permitted, etc.) has been developed before and independently of the logic modelling of mental attitudes, of cognitive agent architecture, and of social interaction; it taken place following the blue print of non-deontic modalities (necessary; possible). We might consider this kind of approach and this use of the logic as basically anti-men...

Currently, agent designers and programmers must work extensively to design, describe, test and implement the communication protocols used in multi agent systems. The design of the protocols is on an imperative basis. The potential exists for the designer and programmer to play a smaller role, though. This role would simply be to input a description of required activities, or to describe it decl...