Purpose – This paper describes the proactive culture of support that has been effective in the regional development of a semi‐rural area. Design/methodology/approach – Information used in this paper came predominately from participative case studies accompanied with formal and informal...

Addresses the relationship between work loyalty and individualism in the USA and Canada in a study of 434 subjects from various organizations which participated. Results indicate that national identity has a minimal influence on individualism and work loyalty. Sex, however, influenced both...

Purpose: The premise of this paper is that tension exists among participants and parties engaged in projects. The uniqueness of development virtually assures this. The purpose of this paper is to propose that tension is a product of the precursors of complexity, uncertainty and equivocality,...

Purpose: This work is initiated under the premise that reliable evaluation methods are necessary to ensure investments in energy conservation, and the purpose of this paper is to contribute to that literature. It describes some pilot changes and their impact in an actual field study oriented...