Struggling to assemble an Ikea product, failing to make a purchase on a website, seeing a recently bought product break down, sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, waiting at the supermarket are only but a few of the multiple occasions for rumination. Although seemingly harmless,...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper using a combination of survey data for regression analysis of woman worker labour force participation in sri lanka - examines the extent to which interrelationships between fertility behaviour, land ownership, educational level, marital status, standard of living...

When studying “urban unities” as qualified by The French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), it may exist different types of towns. They can be centre, periurban or rural areas which could require different transport services. This distinction is based on the...

Au cours de la derniere decennie, les syndicats du secteur prive ont ete largement limites dans l'exercice de leurs fonctions de representation et de negociation par les consequences d'une economie globalisee et d'une importante restructuration de l'appareil productif. Dans le secteru public, la...

The paper indicates a number of preventive measures targeted to the elimination of the causes of stress, rather than the treatment of its effects, and how these measures can become an integral part of the necessary organizational development and eventually pay for themselves. The paper has seven...

This article builds on the idea that consumers use (possibly unconscious) expected relationships between product attributes when they have to draw inferences about uncertain product characteristics. These individuals' expectancies regarding the way product attributes are related are conceived of...

Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books, what meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas’s work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that, similarly to symbolic pollution...