This paper aims to untangle the relationship between income and subjective well-being. To accomplish this, we investigate how subjective well-being is affected by two financially-related determinants that have not been investigated before or scarcely so. Specifically, we research the impact on...

This paper presents an analysis of the joint determination of real and financial development. The analysis is based on a simple endogenous growth model in which a borrower's risk type is private information. Our innovation is to determine jointly the equilibrium loan contract and the economy's...

The authors examine the antecedents of employee creativity and performance in a frontline service setting. They propose a framework that depicts the relationships between goal orientations and employee creativity and performance, including the intervening effects of self-efficacy and customer...

Companies across every industry are increasingly relying on multiple channels to make their services available to consumers. Despite the popularity of multiple channel strategies, little is known about these distribution structures. In fact, the determinants of multiple channel strategies have...

Purpose: Brand love is associated with consumer behaviours that are key for organisational performance. However, research on the antecedents of brand love is sparse. The current research draws on the information processing model as well as on the experiential approaches to consumer behaviour to...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how personal values relate to the psychological contract employees establish with their employers. Design/methodology/approach: The sample consisted of 223 frontline employees from a major Portuguese company. The paper used stepwise regressions analysis...