Previous studies have examined the relationship between charismatic-types of leadership and well-being but not specifically authentic leadership which gives importance to how leaders are intrinsically composed rather than mere behaviours. This study explored whether authentic leadership and well-being are related and whether meaningfulness of work mediates this relationship. Well-being was meas...

BACKGROUND Mediation is an important issue considered in the behavioral, medical, and social sciences. It addresses situations where the effect of a predictor variable X on an outcome variable Y is explained to some extent by an intervening, mediator variable M. Methods for addressing mediation have been available for some time. While these methods continue to undergo refinement, the relationsh...

In this paper, we describe the R package mediation for conducting causal mediation analysis in applied empirical research. In many scientific disciplines, the goal of researchers is not only estimating causal effects of a treatment but also understanding the process in which the treatment causally affects the outcome. Causal mediation analysis is frequently used to assess potential causal mecha...

We investigate the impact of import exposure on labor markets and voters’ support for populist parties using German data from 1987–2009. Using a standard IV model, we find that regions that faced more import exposure experienced significant labor market turmoil and increasing support for extreme-right parties. A natural question that follows is what share of the total effect of trade on politic...

Although previous studies have concluded that Internet use can help students in learning and research, a number of empirical investigations have confirmed that Internet addiction or excessive Internet use has negative effect on students. Thus, if the Internet does not always benefit students, under which conditions can Internet use have positive effects? Since students’ beliefs in their academi...

To draw valid inference about an indirect effect in a mediation model, there must be no omitted confounders. No omitted confounders means that there are no common causes of hypothesized causal relationships. When the no-omitted-confounder assumption is violated, inference about indirect effects can be severely biased and the results potentially misleading. Despite the increasing attention to ad...

Firm agility is quickly becoming an essential capability for companies to effectively compete in hypercompetitive environments. At the same time, firms are using applications that enable close integration coupled with an increased ability to reconfigure processes. Such applications should manifest a balance between integration and reconfigurability. This is the concept of applications ambidexte...

Web 2.0 offers an easy way for individuals to share any kind of content. The users’ new role of being a content producer is associated with the responsibility to observe the relevant law. In this article, relevant regulations of the German and Austrian law are presented. In an attempt to understand the factors that influence users’ lawful behavior, the presented research examines the effects of...

Conflicts of interest occur in various aspects of our daily life and we often come to an understanding by negotiating our way through these conflicts. This paper presents a simple interactive negotiation approach to resolve certain conflicts that involve multiple issues. The focus is on mediation to facilitate a solution based on alternating offers over a finite-time bargaining game. The mediat...

We provide an overview over cultural differences between East and West, as starting point for the development of entertainment technology towards cultural transformation. We argue for the importance of future entertainment technology to contribute to cultural transformation processes in the large. We introduce and discuss the ZENetic Computer for the East and the ALICE project for the West. Our...