Abstract Although prices are the most discussed topic in consumer conversations, research has mostly neglected field of price-related word-of-mouth (WOM). The present study picks up this gap by analyzing effects price-WOM valence and price change communicated WOM on perception. While a sender’s opinion is stronger predictor recipient’s perceived fairness, effect expensiveness perceptions. Innov...

Abstract This study examines the associations between top management’s interactive and diagnostic use of financial non-financial performance measures with individual manager’s (i.e. middle lower level managers) creativity, mediating role perceived fairness their appraisal on such associations. Using data from a survey 220 managers manufacturing organisations in Australia, structural equation mo...

In this work, we examined the surprising value consumers attach to getting a bargain. Past research has largely understood this phenomenon in terms of the impact discounts have on perceptions of fairness. However, the evidence for this explanation is inconclusive due to a number of viable alternatives as well as issues relating to construct and external validity. The experiments we report here ...

Organizational climate and organization culture can be some of the leading factors in hindering knowledge sharing within the organization. It is generally accepted that successful knowledge management practice, including knowledge sharing, comes as a result of a conducive and knowledge sharing friendly environment. Organizations that promote and reward collective work generate a trustful and a ...

Poverty. The views expressed here are those of the author alone. The author thanks the state and county child support staff from throughout the country who gave generously of their time and insights during the interview process. The author also thanks Carol Chellew and Rebekah Selekman for their contributions to this report as well as Dan Meyer for his thoughtful review.

This study examines how people manage uncertain competitive social interactions. To achieve positive interaction outcomes, individuals may engage in a social perception process that leads them to believe they have obtained more information about others than these others gained about them. We investigate how asymmetric knowledge perceptions contribute to important aspects of negotiation, namely ...

This paper highlights how information dissemination or information sharing between the authority (in this case, is the Inland Revenue Board Malaysia IRBM) and the community at large would to certain extent influence their perceptions on the fairness of the income tax system. Specifically, this paper investigates perceptions of individual taxpayers on the fairness of the income tax system in Mal...

We investigate students’ negative perceptions about an online peer assessment system for undergraduate writing across the disciplines. Specifically, we consider the nature of students’ resistance to peer assessment; what factors influence that resistance; and how students’ perceptions impact their revision work. We do this work by first examining findings from an end-of-course survey administer...