This paper draws from follower centric perspective and implicit leadership theories to explore factors that predict higher congruence between real and ideal leader in followers' view. It also examines the impact of sociodemographic and organizational characteristics to the prediction of...

Limits on consumer attention give firms incentives to manipulate prospective buyers’ allocation of attention. This paper models such attention manipulation and shows that it limits the ability of disclosure regulation to improve consumer welfare. Competitive information supply, from firms...

This article examines consumer choice as a function of the perceptual similarity of the options in the decision set. In particular, we examine a scenario in which a set of options is extended by adding alternatives that change its perceptual characteristics, increasing the salience of one of the...

In order to succeed, universities are forced to respond to the new challenges in the rapidly changing world. The recently emerging fourth-generation universities should meet sustainability objectives to better serve their students and their communities. It is essential for universities to...

As the costs of creating and sharing information have plummeted, some scholars question the continued utility of copyright protection, which imposes artificial scarcity so that authors can recoup creation and dissemination costs. Scholars have ignored, however, that when information is abundant,...

Concept: With the rapid transformation in the world of advertising and marketing, Digital Marketing has proved to be one of the most widely used and successful media or channel to spread product or service related information among the target audience. Viral marketing can be said to be a...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report has depicted that the world will be much warmer by the next century as compared to the pre-industrialization era. It has been forecasted that rising global warming levels can have devastating results which will be beyond any...