Biases in meeting opportunities have been recently shown to play a key role for the emergence of homophily in social networks (see Currarini, Jackson and Pin 2009). The aim of this paper is to provide a simple microfoundation of these biases in a model where the size and typecomposition of the meeting pools are shaped by agents’ socialization decisions. In particular, agents either inbreed (dir...

This study identified the main agents, problems, solutions, and strategies for lowering industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in cement industry East Java, Indonesia, by applying an analytical network process. Respondents included government officials, representatives, environmental experts. revealed that (1) regulators are critical agents controlling emissions; (2) three major problems fac...

Growing rates of childhood obesity constitute a worldwide public health crisis. Consumption healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables could help to prevent related non-communicable illness. A prominent role in children’s food-related consumer socialization is played by social agents peers, siblings media. This study aims explore the importance media for socialization. Using parallel, mixed-me...

Relations between parental socialization and infants' prosocial behavior were investigated in sixty three 18- and 30-month old children. Parents' socialization techniques (e.g., directives, negotiation, reasoning) differed for the two age groups, as did relations between socialization and different forms of emerging prosocial behavior (helping; sharing).

Cultural socialization attitudes, beliefs, and parenting behaviors were examined in families with internationally adopted children. The authors hypothesized that parents with lower color-blind racial attitudes would be more likely to engage in enculturation and racialization parenting behaviors because they hold stronger beliefs in the value and importance of cultural socialization. Using data ...

This paper conceptualises and empirically examines the varying roles of performance measures and socialization mechanisms on shared performance within strategic buyer-supplier relationships. Previous research has pointed to the importance of using performance measures to manage supplier relationships. However, we argue that socialization mechanisms may play an important role in mediating the co...

This non-experimental, descriptive study explored the differences in professional socialization between graduating students of two-plus-two baccalaureate completion nursing programs and generic baccalaureate nursing (BSN) programs. The survey population was graduating students from NLN-accredited baccalaureate nursing programs in a 15-state region. Autonomy, noted as a mark of professionalism, ...

The goal of this article is to highlight the dimensions characterizing the socialization process in a crisis context. Based on the definition of organizational socialization advanced by Van Maanen and Schein (1979) and again employed by Jones (1986), a crisis is presented as a passage from a so-called “normal” situation to an “exceptional” situation. A crisis represents a socialization context ...