E-tailing websites are often perceived to be static, impersonal and distant. However, with the movement of the World Wide Web to Web 2.0 in recent years, these online websites have been found to display personalities akin to ‘humanistic’ qualities and project impressions much like its retailing counterpart i.e. salespeople. This paper examines the personality of e-tailing websites and their imp...

This research argues that the meaning embedded in consumption symbols, such as commercial brands, can serve to represent and institutionalize the values and beliefs of a culture. Relying on a combined emic-etic approach, the authors conducted 4 studies to examine how symbolic and expressive attributes associated with commercial brands are structured and how this structure varies across 3 cultur...

Software agent is autonomous technology that helps a lot the human being in performing task. The capability of to take actions on behalf one reasons why researchers or developers systems adapt characteristics either form physical behaviours. Sincerity ethical behaviour can be instilled software environment system. To instil such as sincerity, belief-desire-intention (BDI) architecture should de...

The researcher carried out this study to examine the predictive power of perceived organizational politics (POP) on their political skills regarding networking ability, interpersonal skills, social astuteness, and apparent sincerity. To investigate given hypotheses, used a survey methodology, deductive reasoning technique, positivist research philosophy. Data were collected from seven hundred t...