This research reviews and tests two contradicting notions in cost stickiness literature by empirical recognition of the consequences of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is consistent with both rational resource planning and opportunistic incentives of manager to increase personal benefits arising from status and power. Although both mechanisms involve asymmetric retention of slack, some of the ...

the main purpose of this study is the exploration of childhood nature from the perspective of islamic action theory. for this purpose, conceptual analysis, conception development method was used. so anthropological foundations of islamic view of action were redefined with regard to the childhood. regarding the nature of childhood from the perspective of islamic action theory, on the overall loo...

the concept of right as one of the fundamental concepts of the law, policy and ethics, has been entered into legal discourse of iranian community. however, right is a contested concept, and any discussion of it requires theorizing. despite offering different views about the nature of right that can be categorized under two theories named will-based theory and utility-based theory, it seems that...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore how agency distributed between human actors and nonhuman elements in entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach It based on an inductive longitudinal case study a garden rural community northern Sweden. methodology includes ethnography the garden, spanning course 16 years, careful investigation entrepreneurial processes contained within it. F...