Explaining durable success of new parties through complex causation Pre-master thesis Political Science Abstract Despite the difficulty of building support from the ground up, some new political parties have managed to achieve durable success. The literature provides various explanations for differences in success including institutions, the attitude of the electorate and interactions between p...

The management of conflicts that emerge during new service development (NSD) has escaped the attention of scholars. Yet differing conflict management styles (CMS) of team members and dynamics within the team create a complex managerial challenge. Additionally, the broader literature on conflict resolution shows contradictory findings preventing a clear roadmap for practitioner use when such con...

A comparative analysis of the plasma concentrations of soluble Fas-L (sFas-L) and their correlation with hemoglobin levels and malaria severity was carried out in cohorts of P. falciparum-infected patients from Gabon and India. Young patients from Gabon had plasma levels of sFas-L that increased with disease severity. In contrast, in Indian adults plasmatic sFas-L levels were more elevated in U...

We discuss an emerging group of successful parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that combine anti-establishment appeals with support for moderate policies of political and social reform, which we term anti-establishment reform parties (AERPs). Examples include the Simeon II National Movement (Bulgaria), Res Publica (Estonia), New Era (Latvia), Freedom and Solidarity (Slovakia), TOP09 and...

This paper is an attempt to provide the basic guidelines on how to implement configurational analysis in the context of learning analytics. In detail, we offer a step by step approach on the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Learning analytics gain increased popularity, however studies use traditional symmetric statistical methods to analyze them. Building on the theory of com...

Recommender systems provide suggestions for products, services, or information that match users’ interests and/or needs. However, not all recommendations persuade users to select or use the recommended item. The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) suggests that individuals with low motivation or ability to process the information provided with a recommended item could eventually get persuaded to...

The fuzzy VIKOR method has been developed to solve fuzzy multicriteria problem with conflicting and noncommensurable (different units) criteria. This method solves problem in a fuzzy environment where both criteria and weights could be fuzzy sets. The triangular fuzzy numbers are used to handle imprecise numerical quantities. Fuzzy VIKOR is based on the aggregating fuzzy merit that represents d...

Customers continuously evaluate the credibility and reliability of a range of signals both separately and jointly. However, existing econometric studies pay insufficient attention to the interactions and complex combinations of these signals, and are typically limited as a result of difficulties controlling for multicollinearity and endogeneity in their data. We develop a novel theoretical appr...

The locus of value creation and innovation in the software industry is shifting more and more to platform ecosystems on which numerous developers create extensions with additional functionalities based on the platforms core architecture. While such complementors may strongly profit from platforms, there are considerable costs. Recent studies therefore examined the costs of fitting apps to the s...

Through this paper we advance insights regarding common patterns among information and communication technology (ICT) architectures (ICTA) found in United States’ public safety networks (PSNs). A PSN is an inter-organizational collaboration enabled by ICT to support information sharing and interoperability needs of police and associated public safety organizations. Substantial evidence makes cl...