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Resourcefulness: a proximal conceptualisation of entrepreneurial behaviour
(2010-01-18)
This paper highlights the confusions surrounding prevailing conceptualizations of entrepreneur/entrepreneurship that have limited our understanding and predictability of the phenomenon. An alternative conceptualisation ...
Resourcefulness: a proximal conceptualization of entrepreneurial behaviour
(2000-10-15)
The conceptualisation of the ’entrepreneurial resourcefulness’ model helps one to understand various aspects prompting an entrepreneur to identify
opportunities and thereby regulate and direct her/his behaviour to make ...
Relationship of job involvement to perceived importance and satisfaction of employee needs
(1975-06-25)
The attitude of work alienation or job involvement has been considered as very
central to work motivation (Katz and Kahn, 1966; Seeman, 1971) and yet very
few studies have been done to explore the relationship between ...
Self-medication practices: an explanatory study
(1977-01-19)
This study identifies diseases which are commonly selftreated,
people's sources of information about drugs,
differential credibility attributed to these information
sources, degree of perceived risks in self-medication, ...
Effectiveness of varying sales style on consumer orientations
(1976-10-16)
Using the role-play technique, the effect of four different
sales orientations on customers with four different
need patterns was examined by the authors. In a factorial
design, product-centred,company-centred, ...
Salience of job-instrumentality factors in pre and post decision organizational choice
(2010-05-28)
In a simulated organizational choice experiment, students of
Masters in Business Administration assumed the role of a candi
date for a junior executive position in the job market. After
rating the importance ...
Managerial resourcefulness: a reconceptualization of management skills
(1992-10-01)
The diverse nature of the prevailing conceptualizations of skills required for successful managerial performance hinders our understanding of the phenomenon. This paper examines the limitations to our understanding of ...
Motivation, leadership, and human performance
(2010-03-29)
This review critically examines and integrates the vast and diverse research on motivation and leadership in organizations during the past decade (1983-1993). The review prepared for the ICSSR sponsored Fourth Survey of ...
Oh Manager
(1992-10-01)
The case presented in this issue discusses
the behaviour pattern of senior managers in
a public sector enterprise where the authors
had conducted a Workshop on workers'
participation in management.
Perception of food safety and changes in food consumption habits: a consumer analysis
(2001-10-15)
The relationship between seven types of food safety concerns and the corresponding change in food consumption habits of 236 households in Georgia, USA was evaluated. Results showed a gap between food safety concerns and ...