Research projects can be evaluated through evaluating the research publications produced through those projects. Research publications are evaluation using impact factors and citation indices. There are several citation indices that are proposed and existed to assess the value of a research publication or the research impact of an author or a journal. In this paper, an extensive survey is condu...

The purpose of this study is to develop and test a model of channel member behaviour that hypothesises a central mediating effect for trust between power constructs and key behavioural and attitudinal relationship outcomes. The model is tested on a large sample in a single channel using a dyadic approach. INTRODUCTION In the channels literature, research involving behavioural constructs is exte...

The main objective of this research was to investigate the effect of managerial power on entrepreneurship psychological characteristics of employees in Agriculture Jahad Organizationsof Western Azarbaijan Province. The stratified random sampling method was applied for data collection. In order to collect data, the power assessment questionnaire developed by Hinkin...

Coercive utopianism is one of the more disruptive and destructive processes of the last two centuries. It has not spread in a fixed form, but rather is uniquely generated in each socio-historical context. The focus of the present paper is to identify cultural processes by which coercive utopianism is constituted, and the design and implementation requirements of the computational mechanisms req...

Both coercion, such as strict auditing and the use of fines, and legitimate procedures, such as assistance by tax authorities, are often discussed as means of enhancing tax compliance. However, the psychological mechanisms that determine the effectiveness of each strategy are not clear. Although highly relevant, there is rare empirical literature examining the effects of both strategies applied...

in asymmetric conflicts, great powers often adopt coercive strategies toward weak states. this strategy is a combination of threat, and limited and warning use of force if necessary to impact the opposite's strategy choice. given that the threats of the most powerful states are more effective because the penalty for target disobedience will be more intensive, it seems that the weak states ...

Typical contracts assign both coercive and non-coercive means of power to the principal’s side, providing the agent with a comparably small range of countervailing anti-power. Initially agents are therefore vulnerable to opportunistic principal behavior and will rationally anticipate this threat upon signing a contract. In this paper we analyze various forms of power and explain their asymmetri...

The papers in this special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism edited by Shelley K. Taylor and Mitsuyo Sakamoto cover a wide range of educational contexts and issues and they draw on a variety of disciplinary perspectives to interpret the phenomena they analyze. As the editors point out in their introduction, the common thread linking these analyses is the int...

he modernization project launched by the West two centuries ago, was based on three pillars: State-logic, Capital-logic and Ratio-logic; formulated in part by Montesquieu (France), Smith (Britain) and Kant (Germany). The logic of the State implied centralization of coercive power, tempered by democracy. The logic of Capital implied market forces for economic power, tempered by anti-monopoly cla...