The purpose of this paper is to extend marketing knowledge into perceived risk in online transactions beyond the current positivistic, hypotheses-driven research by providing qualitative insights into how individuals construct their accounts of perceived risk online. Additionally, the study...

Academic researchers in all disciplines are now under pressure to work more closely with industry and the community through contract research. These alliances are expected to produce increased quantities of research output for both the individual academic and institution, as well as successful...

This article examines the development of two distinct models of organising allied health professionals within two public sector health service organisations in Australia. The first case illustrated a mode of organising that facilitated a culture that focused on asset protection and whose...

We investigate how a leader's perception of a follower's behaviours may impact the follower's perception of a leader's behaviours which in turn may relate to a leader's rating of the LMX quality. Multilevel multisource data were collected from 315 leader–member dyads in 27 military teams. At...

Network theory and research have identified the powerful dynamic of homophily whereby individuals are more likely to connect with similar rather than dissimilar others. However, less is known about when individuals might connect with dissimilar others to enhance organizational diversity benefits...

This study addresses demographic differences between employees and their managers with regard to perceptions of performance appraisals, in general, and negative feedback, in particular. A sample of non-supervisory employees (n = 197) was surveyed from an organization whose members represent over...

This study examined the effects of demographic similarity and dissimilarity on perceptions of performance appraisals and reactions to negative feedback. We surveyed a sample of 180 non-supervisory employees from an organization whose members represent over 120 nationalities. Consistent with...

Editors need to think about their intrinsic rewards, and hence about their motives and goals. Why do you want to serve as an editor? What satisfactions do you hope to receive from the experience? Recognition? Visibility? Methodological change? Establishment of a nascent research domain?...