Purpose – To determine the effects of project management skills, entrepreneurial proclivity, and existing knowledge on team reflexivity and performance of cross-functional new product development (NPD) team. The moderating roles of team cohesiveness and knowledge practice are also explored. Design/methodology/approach – This study used online questionnaire surveys by inviting 500 R&D team membe...

Children who expect they can bring about good outcomes and avoid bad outcomes tend to experience more personal successes. Little is known about factors that contribute to these ‘control expectancies’. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether children’s internal control expectancies occur in the context of parents’ internal control expectancies, low family strain, and high famil...

This paper investigates the main features and the significance of the SME sector development for approaching the regional question in Romania, with a particular emphasis on the quantitative, qualitative and sectoral aspects of the territorial distribution of SMEs and their role in territorial development and competition. The main conclusion is that the Romanian SME sector can represent an impor...

We discuss the use of nonstandard methods in the study of Ramsey type problems, and illustrate this with an example concerning the existence of definable solutions in models of BΣ2 for the combinatorial principles of Ramsey’s Theorem for pairs and cohesiveness.

Humor is hypothesized to be a social activity that alters the status of the humorist positively and that of the object or victim negatively. Of the two traditionally distingushed classes of humor, "ostracizing" humor singles out a victim, with others present or absent either incidental affiliates of the humorist (and one another) or unaffected. "AltBiative" humor, on the other hand, is focused ...

Transboundary regionalism can be defined as a spatially integrated form of political co-operation and problem-solving that transcends the limits of nationally-based administrative practice and attempts to create (or re-create, as the case might be) a sense of cohesiveness, interdependence and common interests across national boundaries. This summary discussion touches upon the phenomenon of Tra...

CROSS-BORDER AND LOCAL COOPERATION ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND: AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE Cross-border and local cooperation can foster local learning and contribute positively to business performance and social cohesion. This paper considers firms’ economic motivation for both types of cooperation around the Irish border. This area, while inevitably impacted by civil unrest in Northern Ireland, sha...

The purpose of this pilot case study was to answer the following research questions: How do previous experiences affect students’ attitudes toward online teamwork? When do students’ attitudes toward online teamwork first develop and why? Using a social constructivist framework, a qualitative case study design was utilized to conduct an online open-ended survey and online focus group in one onli...