This article draws on the Focus Theory of Normative Conduct to examine whether injunctive social norms relating to perceived environmental management practices shape employees' self-reported pro-environmental behaviour in their private sphere. To test our hypotheses, we employed a mixed methods...

In the 21 cetury, the century of fast changes, business operates faster and with more complexity and uncertainty than ever before. The impact of stress on profitability, whether creative or negative, must be understood, measured and managed in a realistic

The importance of teamwork on patient safety in healthcare has been well established. However, the theory and research of healthcare teams are seriously lacking in clinical application. While conventional team theory assumes that teams are stable and leadership is constant, a growing body of...

The dynamic choice between individual and social learning is explored for a population of autonomous agents whose objective is to find solutions to a stream of related problems. The probability that an agent is in the individual learning mode, as opposed to the social learning mode, evolves over...

This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and...

The acceleration of global competition has brought very important changes in the working environment. Some of these changes, such as increasing part-time, temporary or self- employment (either virtual or true), intensification of labour productivity, etc. have a significant impact on workplace...

This paper is to analyze if the EU-Africa Joint Action Plan 2011-2013 can be realized and it will be a win-win game. If it would prove to be functional, the Joint Action Plan will be a step forward towards other kind of alliances for security, which will not be necessarily military alliances,...