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Beauty Isn't Always Better: How Salesperson Attractiveness Affects Consumers' Approach Behaviors

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines how a consumer's committed romantic relationship influences their decision to approach an attractive salesperson in a retail environment. To date, the majority of research espouses the benefits of salesperson attractiveness in enhancing consumers' perceptions of the salesperson and the represented retailer.
Veronica L. Thomas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The hunt for Scabiosa trenta Hacq: how the pursuit of a phantom ignited a passion for botany and mountaineering

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Scabiosa trenta Hacq. was first described in 1782 by Balthasar Hacquet, with its specific epithet referring to the Trenta Valley in Slovenia. Since then, S. trenta has been the focus of numerous mountaineering and botanical expeditions, particularly by the alpinist Julius Kugy during the Golden Age of Alpinism, a period in the second half of 19th ...
Valentina Boscariol   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Different Stakeholders, Different Pathways: How Capacity Profiles Shape Managerial Priorities for Beneficiaries and Staff in Decision‐Making

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how combinations of organizational capacities shape nongovernmental organization (NGO) managers' prioritization of staff and beneficiaries. While stakeholder theory identifies which stakeholders' interests attract attention, it offers limited guidance on how managers ultimately prioritize among stakeholders in decision ...
Robbie Waters Robichau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonprofit Governance and Financial Stability: A Study of Government‐Funded Social Services

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofit social service providers are essential in delivering vital services, often with public funding. This study adopts a contingency perspective to explore the relationship between organizational governance and financial stability in publicly funded nonprofit organizations. We use a combination of comparative multilevel analysis (CMA) and
Florentine Maier   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Framework for Understanding Localization in Its Institutional Context: A Systems Perspective for Incorporating Local Values

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Re-taking the field: resuming in-person fieldwork amid the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

open access: yesLinguist Vanguard
Idone A   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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