Context and Purpose: The increased focus of higher education institutions on research and – lately – on societal challenges and real-world problems, the importance of academic rankings for financing and international competitions and the research and publication oriented professional...

Tacit knowledge utilization and transfer in organizations are critical for maintaining a competitive advantage and for successful coopetition, in the case of educational institutions. Acquiring, extracting and transferring tacit knowledge are difficult tasks, due to the complexity of the tacit...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer some personal thoughts into the meaning of education in Romania. Design/methodology/approach – This paper explores a model of four stages of student teacher interactions and the rigidity of teacher behavior in past times. The model is...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze antecedents of entrepreneurship propensity in two separate studies, at individual and organizational levels. The first study proposes that the effect of individual cultural values on entrepreneurial propensity is mediated by the locus of control. The second...

The establishment of a research strategy doesn’t necessarily suppose a specific standardization. Nothing seems to impose to the researcher a projected structure as a basis for his future approach. Our article attempts to identify a few methodological landmarks for a research strategy so that...

The study presents three methods which can be used to assess discriminant validity for multi-item scales. Q-sorting is presented as a method that can be used in early stages of research, being more exploratory, while the chi-square difference test and the average variance extracted analysis are...

Purpose Emerged from a theoretical contradiction, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether perceptions and behaviors toward new brands depend on the priority assigned to promote the company’s intentions (warmth) vs its abilities (competence). Design/methodology/approach The research...

Amid the current economic crisis, the number of problems faced by researchers has increased. The crisis has caused a lack of research funding, leading to a preference for large research teams, with transnational partners and multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research subjects. This coincides...

One of the most widely accepted notions in consumer behavior is that word-of-mouth (WOM) communication is one of the ways in which this influence manifests itself in shaping consumer's attitudes and behaviors. The WOM can have an important role from a managerial standpoint. The widespread...