Previous studies conducted in Portugal on work-family conflict and turnover intention have focused on analyzing how difficulties in balancing employees' work and personal lives affect individual commitment and performance, and little attention has been paid to analyzing factors that may reduce...

Purpose: We propose an integrative model of how leaders (individual level) effectively relate to their social networks as a whole (network level). Additionally, we focus both on the leader constructs and the followers shared constructs about those networks. Design/methodology/approach: Our...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the relation between leadership perception and workers’ sense of calling. Design/methodology/approach: Workers’ sense of calling has been shown to relate to organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction, career development, personal...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on available data regarding the historical event of the major Lisbon earthquake of 1755 in order to understand the governance structure that was set to rebuild the city of Lisbon, as well as to elaborate on Max Weber’s theory of authority....

Purpose – Much of management research has been based on what can be called a “deficit‐based” approach. In contrast, there is the recent emergence of a new paradigm shift with the appearance of positive organizational studies. This paper aims to discuss how to integrate knowledge coming...