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Showing 1 to 20 of 306 for “"empirical support"”.
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Empirical support for the adaptive and maladaptive functions of autobiographical memory
Autobiographical memories are hypothesised to serve at least three functions: they direct people’s behaviour, inform their identity, and facilitate social bonding. But most of the research on these three functions has focused on how memories serve them in ways that are adaptive—in fact, we know …
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Testing a need satisfaction approach to organizational citizenship behaviours and counterproductive work behaviours
… soon lost their appeal due to the lack of enough empirical support. More recently however, newer need theories have been proposed by scholars that have gained a fair amount of empirical support in various domains. Despite their popularity in different domains, more research is needed to establish …
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Financial instability and economic activity in Brazil: Theoretical and empirical evidence
… Particularly, this work provides theoretical and empirical support to the idea of ""non-neutrality"" of the financial sector in a developing economy like that of Brazil."
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An Evaluation of the Entity Theory as a Partial Solution to the Non-Comparability Enigma of Inter-firm Income Statement Analysis
… principles, and to investigate whether or not empirical support exists among two professional groups for the propositions inherently contained in the entity theory.</p>
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A Comparison of Promotional Decisions for Employees With One or Multiple Positions in the Firm Using a Learning Approach
The paper is able to empirically uphold the following three theoretical predictions. First, newly hired employees are more likely to be promoted than incumbents are. Second, the length of time until a promotion is shorter for new hires than incumbents. Third, incumbents receive more favorable job …
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It's all relative: assessing prominent explanations for U.S. homicide trends
… between 1990 and 2016. Results revealed strong support for the role of changes in single parent households, inflation, consumer sentiment, military involvement, racial heterogeneity, disadvantage, incarceration, gun prevalence, racial and gender inequality, felony arrest, and divorce/family …
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The Relationship Between Perceptions of Sexual Harassment and Feminist Identity Development
… sexual harassment. The first hypothesis is not supported by the data. The second hypothesis is shown to have strong empirical support, and is consistent with those results reported in previous research. Methodological difficulties of the current study are presented and suggestions for …
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Assessment of Constructs Related to Childhood Aggression
This study provides empirical support for the comprehensive theoretical model of aggression proposed by Meloy (2001) by examining characteristics of children who have a longstanding history of aggression across home and educational settings. The theoretical model first proposed by Meloy (2001) …
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The Agricultural Household in Bangladesh: A Disaggregated Empirical Analysis With Particular Emphasis on the Demand for Food Calories
The motivation for the third chapter is to find empirical support to justify increased rate of rural and urban migration. Here we estimate the pattern of consumption behavior of urban and rural households and look for existing differences. Using Todaro's model of expected wages for a migrant …
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Choosing Networks for Ride-Hailing Platforms
… networks. Third, we evaluate these approaches on empirical data. We find empirical support for the importance of the detour factor and the fleet size.
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Institutional Theory and Cross-National Differences in International Market Selection for Direct Selling
… in this case direct selling, is unique to IMS empirical analysis as it represents multiple products and services from multiple industries. The analysis provided initial empirical support for the hypotheses. Managerial implications are discussed.</p>
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Development of a new measure of helping at work
… could not be developed. In this study, however, empirical support was found for two helping scales and criteria of interest. Future directions and implications of this study are discussed.
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Towards a better understanding of the relationship between speed of internationalization and performance outcomes among young international ventures
… primary survey data from INVs in China, we found empirical support for significant moderating impact of scope of internationalization, entrepreneurial orientation variables and no support for the moderating impact of degree of internationalization variable. The results suggest that business …
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Comovement and the News
I introduce a novel approach for the empirical analysis of asset price comovement that relates the inter-firm textual similarity of news reports to their equity return correlation. I find that this measure of news similarity is just as important for predicting future cross-firm comovement as …
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Culture and Somatic Focused Attention
… words. Together, these findings provide some empirical support for cultural differences in the experience and verbal expression of emotions.
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Political Cultures in Times of Crisis: Measuring the Effects of Liberal Values on Interstate Crisis Onset
… centuries of theoretical presence and decades of empirical analysis, the democratic peace theory project still struggles to explain and measure the role democracy (understood as representative government, liberal culture, or both) plays in interstate relations generally, and the onset of conflict …
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Evaluation of employee assistance programs: A study of preferences based on the multiple constituency approach
… within organizations continues unabated, strong empirical support regarding the efficacy of EAPs is lacking. Researchers have failed to adequately apply rigorous research methods to the evaluation of EAPs. The result has been that the effectiveness of EAPs is poorly understood. This study …
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INTERACTIVE EMPATHY AND LEADER EFFECTIVENESS: AN EVALUATION OF HOW SENSING EMOTION AND RESPONDING WITH EMPATHY INFLUENCE CORPORATE LEADER EFFECTIVENESS
… incorporated annual performance evaluations to empirically link interactive empathy to leader performance of 102 leaders. Data was collected from the leader’s followers, peers, and supervisors and from self-report personality evaluations. The results of this study show that leaders that are …
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Detecting Deceptive Impression Management Behaviors in Interviews Using Natural Language Processing
… are discussed. However, given the lack of empirical support for this method, organizations should proceed with caution when deciding to use NLP techniques to predict deceptive IM in employment interviews.</p>
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An Examination of Consumers' Selective Word-of-Mouth Communication Process and its Consequences
… of the communicated messages. To provide empirical support for this proposition, I employed a two-step, memory-based experiment procedure and used interpersonal relationship strength as the key investigating variable to examine communicators' selective message construction behavior and its …
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