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Invisible Labor and the “Ghost Particle”: Underground Physics at the Kolar Gold Fields**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
Abstract When cosmic rays—high‐energy particles from outer space—encounter the Earth's atmosphere, they produce particles called neutrinos. To detect them, physicists go underground inside deep mines where the overlying rock can filter out the cosmic‐ray background radiation.
Nithyanand Rao
wiley   +1 more source

The Relevance of Board Diversity Features in a Weak Institutional Business Environment

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The board diversity literature continues to advance a simplistic but empirically unsubstantiated rhetoric of the board diversity accountability, economic benefits and its relationship with other firm characteristics. Yet, less is understood about which board diversity features actually matter for business decision‐making, especially in weak ...
Folajimi Ashiru, Emmanuel Adegbite, Subhan Ullah, Amir Michael, Neil Pyper   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Knowledge Creation Capability: The Role of Big-Five Personality Traits and Transformational Leadership [PDF]

Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 2019
Current research aims to develop and test a conceptual framework that poses attention to individuals‟ personality as a potential predictor of their knowledge creation capability, considering the mediating effect of transformational leadership ...
Umer Ayub, Fizza Kanwal, A Rashid Kausar
doaj  

Clustering and Measuring Consumption Emotions: Scale Development Through Text Mining and a Questionnaire Survey

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aimed to develop the Korean Consumption Emotion List (KCEL), a contemporary scale for measuring discrete consumption emotions. While consumers increasingly seek emotional value in consumption, existing scales developed decades ago in Western contexts may not fully capture modern consumer emotions.
Dahye Han
wiley   +1 more source

Voting in agreeable societies [PDF]

Amer. Math. Monthly 117 (2010), pp 27-39, 2008
When can a majority of voters find common ground, that is, a position they all agree upon? How does the shape of the political spectrum influence the outcome? When mathematical objects have a social interpretation, the associated theorems have social applications.
arxiv  

The relationships between personality, approaches to learning, and academic success in first-year psychology distance education students [PDF]

, 2006
[Abstract]: The first aim of this study was to examine the relationships between the big five personality traits and approaches to learning in a sample of first-year psychology distance students.
Burton, Lorelle J., Nelson, Louise
core  

The Precursors and Products of Justice Climates: Group Leader Antecedents and Employee Attitudinal Consequences [PDF]

, 2007
Drawing on the organizational justice, organizational climate, leadership and personality, and social comparison theory literatures, we develop hypotheses about the effects of leader personality on the development of three types of justice climates (e.g.,
Adams JS, Avery DR, Bass BM, Bies RJ, Bies RJ, Bies RJ, Bliese PD, Bowen DE, Cohen-Charash Y, Colquitt JA, Costa PT, Costa PT, Cropanzano R, Davis A, De Dreu C., Dietz J, Ehrhart MG., Folger R, Folger R, Folger R., Gelfand MJ, Goldberg LR, Goodstein LD, Greenberg J, Harrison DA, Kirkpatrick SA, Klein KJ, Kozlowski SWJ, Leventhal GS, Lewin K, Lind EA, Lind EA, McGregor D., Mischel W, Naumann SE, Roberson QM, Salvaggio AN, Scandura TA, Schneider B, Shah PS, Singer JD, Spangler WD, Thibaut JW, Tyler TR, van Knippenberg B   +44 more
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The Role of Personality Traits and Entrepreneurial Self‐Efficacy in SME Sustainability

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of personality traits in shaping sustainable business practices among entrepreneurs, focusing on the mediating role of entrepreneurial self‐efficacy. Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory, we conceptualize entrepreneurial self‐efficacy as a cognitive belief mechanism that strengthens entrepreneurs' confidence in ...
Saša Malenković, Alenka Slavec Gomezel
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of the Correlation between Personality Traits and Observance of Professional Ethics and Individual Accountability of Counselors and Psychologists

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum, 2015
Background and Objectives: Professional ethics and accountability are of considerable importance for professionals who provide professional services.
Ezzatollah Ahmadi, Abolfazl Alishahi Ghasemzadeh, Hassan Bafandeh Gharamaleki   +2 more
doaj  

Do Big 5 Personality Characteristics and Narcissism Predict Engagement in Leader Development?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
This study examines personality as a predictor of engagement behavior displayed during leader development programs. Leader development engagement behavior (LDEB) is measured by collecting self- and director ratings of behaviors displayed by undergraduate
Carrie A. Blair, Rachele E. Palmieri, Carmen Paz-Aparicio   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source