A brands the “new religion”? Practitioners and scholars have been intrigued by the possibility, but strong theory and empirical evidence supporting the existence of a relationship between brands and religion is scarce. In what follows, we argue and demonstrate that religiosity is indeed related to “brand reliance,” i.e., the degree to which consumers prefer branded goods over unbranded goods or...

abstract background: nurses, who are considered to form the largest group of professional healthcare providers, face the challenge of maintaining, promoting, and providing quality nursing care and to prepare themselves to function confidently and to care effectively. among the factors affecting nursing performance, self-efficacy has been expected to have the greatest influence. however, the con...

The recognized importance of collaboration has driven the development of learning environments and technologies. Instructional efforts have concentrated on supporting students’ development of collaborative agency – knowing how to collaborate in small groups. Much less emphasis has been placed on students’ collective agency that would involve participation in large groups prominent in today’s so...

This paper explores roles and interventions in IS action research. I draw upon a four-year research project about electronic medical records, conducted in close collaboration with a community partner. Following a self-reflexive stance, I trace the trajectory of the research engagement and the different roles I occupied. To better understand the complex nature of collaboration found within actio...

purpose some major competitions (e.g. london olympics, 2012) are scheduled during the ramadan fasting month. little attention has been given to explore the archers’ performance related subjective experiences with a qualitative method. therefore, this study addressed individual archers’ subjective experiences within the framework of self-regulation during ramadan. methods eleven elite malaysian ...

It has been previously shown that non-architecturally singular parallel manipulators of Stewart Gough type, where the planar platform and the planar base are related by a projectivity, have either so-called elliptic self-motions or pure translational self-motions. As the geometry of all manipulators with translational selfmotions is already known, we focus on elliptic self-motions. We show that...

purpose: the present paper aims to relate self-efficacy as an important psychological construct to information literacy as an essential requisite of the information society.methodology: reviewing related literature in communication, sociology, information science and computer science.findings: self-efficacy could increase interest, efforts, enjoy, self-regulation and performance. it is consider...