Abstract In the spirit of growing developments in positive psychology, there is an increasing interest how kind people are to each other. Yet, this area lacks any strong psychometric instrument. An initial exploratory study demonstrated that a 40-item questionnaire, completed by 165 people, revealed distinct aspects kindness when subjected multivariate analysis. A subsequent reported, using str...

The literature on new product development has examined several important determinants of collaboration among project members. However, we are not aware of any study that links top management decisions with project members’ collaborative behavior. To address this significant gap, this study examines how perceived procedural justice in top management decisions regarding new products is related to...

The identification of similarity is crucial for reusing experience, where it provides the criterion for which elements to reuse in a given context, and for creativity, where generation of artifacts that are similar to those that already existed is not considered creative. Yet similarity is difficult to compute between complex artifacts such as stories. The present paper compares the judgment on...

liquidity is the most important aspect of stock markets development. this research investigates the effect of share issue privatization (sip) on tehran stock exchange (tse) liquidity. regarding the three assessable measures in sip, three hypotheses based on the number of privatized firms, the volume and the value of the sold stocks were defined and tested. in this research, the tse liquidity is...