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Hagstrand, Simon. "Social Knowledge Exchange : How Individuals exchange and interpret information to recieve correct understanding." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-13016.
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Micevski, Milena. "Marketing and sales interface flexibility : a social exchange theory perspective." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/18023.
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To be successful in today s turbulent business environment it is very important for a company to exhibit flexibility in its processes, activities and interfaces. Such a flexible approach enables firms to adapt and improvise in order to achieve the best possible outcomes. In spite of there being ample research on how to achieve flexibility in a variety of business process and activities, there remains little understanding on how flexibility in managing the use of resources reveals itself in intra-organisational interfaces. This thesis sheds more light on this issue and investigates flexibility specifically in the relational context of cross-functional interfaces. The importance of developing and investigating flexibility at the cross-functional relational interface is embedded in the recognition that the ability and willingness of departments to adapt and to accommodate deviations from original strategies through their cross-functional working is a critical factor for success. This research investigates flexibility at one such interface that is argued to be essential in achieving organisational success but that is characterised by conflict, lack of cooperation and distrust the Marketing and Sales interface. A literature review incorporating two broad literature streams; i.e., the Marketing and Sales cross-functional relationship literature and the literature on organisational flexibility helped develop a guiding definition of Marketing and Sales Interface Flexibility (MSIF). This definition was subsequently confirmed in the exploratory phase of the thesis, thereby providing a stronger conceptualisation of the MSIF phenomenon. The concept was found to be predicated on social exchange theory s view on the M&S exchange relationship as a dynamic process in which both continuously adapt to each other s needs through modification of their resources required to match those needs. Consequently, a theoretical model was developed. This model argues for an inverted U-shaped relationship between MSIF and business performance. According to this model, beyond certain optimal point MSIF may reduce business performance. Based on the empirical testing of the model via a survey of 229 UK-based business organisations no support was found for the inverted U-shaped relationship between MSIF and customer performance. Results of the empirical testing indicated that MSIF has an inverted U-shaped relationship with a firm s market performance. These results imply that a firm s market success is secured at lower levels of MSIF whereas further increases in investments in MSIF may, at some point, become detrimental to an organisation s market performance (i.e., market share and sales volume). Therefore, the findings suggest that managers should manage MSIF wisely, hold themselves from over-investing in MSIF and seek to find the optimal level which will provide the best market performance. On the other hand, MSIF was found to have a linear, positive relationship to customer performance indicating that higher levels of MSIF will secure more a satisfied and loyal customer base. The study also incorporates the contingency theory perspective and hypothesises the moderating effect of market dynamism on the MSIF - performance relationship. The results indicate that the value of MSIF for generating market performance decreases as technological turbulence in the market increases. Based on the social exchange theory the relationship between four socially constructed antecedents and MSIF are proposed. The findings highlight the positive impact of, (1) trust in the Marketing and Sales relationship, and (2) rules and norms of social exchange between Marketing and Sales as reflected in compatible goals and joint rewards on MSIF. However, resource dependence asymmetry is found to be negatively related to MSIF suggesting that a misbalanced resource dependency between the two will hamper MSIF. The theoretical and practical implications of the study findings are subsequently presented along with an acknowledgment of the study s limitations and proposed future research to further explore this important area.
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Grenda, Donn Robert. "A General Theory of Economic Flow, Social Exchange, and Hegemonic Relationship." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625722.
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Abra, Gordon. "Structural Change in Exchange Relations." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1411%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Ahrens, Fred. "Knowledge Exchange Behavior in Supply Channel Relationships:A Social Exchange and Game-theoretic Approach." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439295990.
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Lynch, Kellie R. "Great Sexpectations: The Application of Sexual Social Exchange Theory to Date Rape." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_etds/18.
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In a two-part study, dating sexual expectations will be evaluated and the sexual social exchange theory will be investigated in a date rape trial. In Part 1, participants (N = 100) will be presented with one of two fictional date scenarios that will differ only on the cost of the date (i.e., $30 or $175). Participants will then indicate what behaviors (sexual and not sexual) are appropriate at the end of a first date and then a fifth date. It is predicted that all participants will expect sexual intercourse more on the fifth date than the first, and that participants in the expensive date scenario will expect sexual intercourse more than participants in the inexpensive date condition. Part II will use the information gathered in Part I to investigate how sexual expectations in a dating scenario may manifest themselves as feelings of reciprocity in the sexual social exchange theory. In Part II participants (N = 160) will be presented with one of four trial summaries that differ depending on the cost of the date (i.e., $30 or $175) and the date number (i.e., first or fifth). Participants will render a verdict and then rate the defendant and alleged victim on various rating factors (e.g., credibility), in addition to completing the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance scale, short form. It is predicted that there will be fewer guilty verdicts and lower pro-victim judgments for both men and women when the cost of the date was high and when the couple was on their fifth date. It is also predicted that men will render fewer guilty verdicts and report lower pro-victim attitudes than women. Juror rating subscales (e.g., victim credibility) and rape myth acceptance scores are predicted to mediate the effects of the cost of date and date number on verdict. The results will be discussed in terms of how the sexual social exchange theory can explain juror perceptions in a date rape trial.
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Shang, Qingyan. "Two essays on social interactions." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148654775.
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Young, Margaret H. "Mate Selection in Contemporary America: An Exchange Theory Perspective." DigitalCommons@USU, 1989. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2360.
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The use of exchange theory as it applies to human relations has escalated dramatically in the past 20 years. The present study applies exchange theory as the basis of mate selection in contemporary society. Whereas an actual barter system was used in the past and families played a major role in choosing prospective mates, participants in the mate selection process are not virtually on their own and must rely upon their own bargaining skills to present their assets on the marriage market. A number of characteristics are thought to enhance or detract from a person's "worth" on the marriage market. Over 900 college students from nine universities across the united states were surveyed in order to ascertain what they considered valuable in a potential mate, and important variables in the mate selection process were determined. Comparisons were made among gender, race, marital status, family size and configuration, socioeconomic status, religious orientation, and geographical region of the United States. The results indicate that important differences exist among the various groups concerning what characteristics enhance or detract from an individual's worth on the marriage market in contemporary America. Finally, it was determined that marital worth of individuals can theoretically be measured.
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Czekanski, William Andrew. "Social Exchange in Intercollegiate Athletics: An Exploration of Exchange Ideologies in the Coach-Student-Athlete Dyad." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1336664431.
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Jönsson, Fredrik. "Leader-Member Exchange Theory och utvecklande ledarskap i Försvarsmakten." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10139.
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Building on previous research into the relationship between Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Transformational Leadership as well as decades’ worth of LMX-research, this study sets out to investigate the connection between high-quality leader-member exchanges and developmental leadership. The need for such a study arose from the lack of critical examination of the current leadership within the Swedish Armed Forces, as well as the central position given to the Developmental Leadership Theory. In order to examine the correlation between LMX and developmental leadership a questionnaire based on LMX-7 and the Developmental Leadership Questionnaire was constructed. Conscripts from the 1st Marine Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, the Life Guards Regiment and the Norrbotten Regiment were chosen as the study’s sample. Because of late rescheduling, ongoing field exercises and current restrictions due to the ongoing pandemic, only conscripts from the Norrbotten Regiment were able to partake in the study. Using data from 31 conscripts, this study found that there is a positive correlation between high-quality LMX-exchanges and subjection to developmental leadership. The data analysis of Pearson’s correlation coefficient resulted in r=0,66, denoting a moderate correlation. Due to the lacking response rate this result cannot be considered statistically significant, though. As a result, further studies into the relationship between Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Developmental Leadership Theory are required. The questionnaire used in the current study needs further evaluation and would benefit from being subjected to translation and back-translation procedures in order to verify its validity.
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Burkett, Brandy N. "Cheater Detection and the Fundamental Attribution Error: A Test of Social Exchange Theory." W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626382.
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Popaitoon, Patchara. "HR-performance linkages through the lens of social exchange." Thesis, University of Bath, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.545341.
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This research explores the linkages between HR practices and business sales performance in a retail bank branch network. Whilst previous research in the last two decades has generally supported the notion that when appropriately designed HR practices can help enhance organizational outcomes, there is still ongoing debate regarding how such practices can actually influence business results. In particular, academics have highlighted the importance of the quality of HR implementation, because this can affect employee day-to-day experiences of and reactions to the HR practices which can impact on variance in the business results. In effect, it is crucial for research to take up the employee lens of the implemented practices and their reactions to these, if the HR-performance relationship is to be clearly understood. This thesis contributes to this research agenda by adopting the social exchange lens to shed light on the nature of the aforementioned relationship. A multidisciplinary and multilevel HR-performance model was employed for conducting empirical tests. Specifically, the empirical model was constructed from the literature in three different fields: strategic human resources management, social exchange theory and psychological contract, with the aim of eliciting the nature of employer-employee exchange relationships in the HR process. Subsequently, the model was tested using the data obtained from 1,286 employees in 149 bank branches and analysed so as to assess the multilevel process through which HR practices can influence business sales performance. The empirical results indicate that an organization can improve branch sales performance by paying careful attention to several processes pertaining to the implementation of HR practices. That is, through the psychological contract process, employees, based on their perceptions of the quality of the received practices (i.e. HR level and breach), reciprocate the organization with their discretionary performance, i.e. commitment attitudes and organizational citizenship behaviours and these outcomes have an impact on business results. Moreover, the findings also point to a boundary condition, whereby the HR-performance relationship can be enhanced by stressing the role of the key constituencies responsible for delivering these practices, namely: senior management and the line manager. That is, respectively, through the affective and relational processes, these agents can have an impact on employee perceptions of HR level and whether there has been a breach of the psychological contract, which in turn influence employee reactions in the causal chain. In summary, having applied the social exchange perspective to elicit the employee interaction with the different quality of HR implementation across bank branches, this study has contributed to the literature by identifying the key processes including psychological contract, relational and affective processes through which HR practices can impact on business sales performance, thereby illustrating how an organization’s human resources can serve as the source of sustained business competitive advantage.
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Karanges, Emma Ruth. "Optimising employee engagement with internal communication : a social exchange perspective." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/71024/1/Emma_Karanges_Thesis.pdf.
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Drawing on principles of social exchange this thesis employs mediated regression to investigate the relationship between internal communication and employee engagement in the Australian workforce. Findings suggest organisations and supervisors should focus internal communication efforts toward building greater perceptions of support and stronger identification among employees in order to foster optimal engagement. This research contributes to public relations and management scholarship through understanding how perceived support and identification act as mediating mechanisms in the relationship between internal communication and employee engagement at the organisational and supervisory level.
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KNAPP, JOSHUA R. "Developing a Multi-Foci Perspective of Psychological Contract Theory." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1213812609.
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Vera, Mariela Anahi. "A social exchange and power dependency theory perspective of Mexican immigrant family communication patterns." Scholarly Commons, 2008. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/690.
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This study aimed to identify the family communication patterns that were typical of Mexican immigrant'schildhood and parenthood, along with the influence that resources and the distribution of power and dependency have within the family structure. In doing so, this study demonstrated how a change in the family communication pattern occurs after migration to the United States. Moreover, this study uncovered some of the reasons behind the change in communication.
Fifteen conversational interviews were conducted in the homes of Mexican immigrants to address the following three research questions: (1) How do parents of Mexican immigrant families describe the family communication patterns that typified their communication with their parents, in terms of (a) socio-orientation versus concept orientation, (b) resources, and (c) power dependency? (2) How do parents of Mexican immigrant families describe the family communication patterns that typify their communication with their children, in terms of(a) socio-orientation versus concept orientation, (b) resources, and (c) power dependency? And (3) what suggestions do the parents of Mexican immigrant families have for improving family communication with their children?
The answers provided by the participants elicited thirteen key themes that provided interesting insights about this wide and critical population. The thirteen themes indicated that Mexican immigrant parents of pre adolescent children have constructed a hybrid communication pattern, which combines traditional characteristics with open and expressive characteristics. Mexican immigrant parents of young adult and adult children have developed an open and expressive communication pattern. This study also found that resources, acquired by U.S. born children, did not affect the distribution of relational power and dependency within their families nor did they create a shift in their family's communication power. A resource that did influence both relational power and the family's communication pattern was peer dependency.
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Collett, Jessica L. "Third Party Intervention and Relationship Outcomes: Extending Social Exchange Theory Through the Incorporation of Intermediaries." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195532.
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Most dispute resolution is between employers and employees, family or friends, neighbors, and other groups who have continued contact after they leave the courtroom, mediator's office, or agree to contract terms. Because of such ongoing relationships, a vital component of any kind of dispute resolution is how conflicting parties feel about each other after the process is over. Although previous conflict resolution research focuses primarily on the perceived fairness of the third-party, process or outcome, my dissertation centers around how the two parties engaged in the process perceive each other and their relations. Specifically, I ask how intermediaries' intervention in a resolution process affects disputing individuals' perceptions of fairness of one another, general positive regard toward one another, and predictions for positive future interactions with one another.I explore the relationship between third party intervention and such relationship outcomes using two experimental methods, vignettes and laboratory research. In each experiment I vary the level of third party intervention (high, low, absent), while holding dispute resolution outcomes constant, and then measure disputants' perceptions of one another. I also test three potential intervening mechanisms for the relationship between intervention and perceptions - procedural fairness, situational attributions, and salience of conflict.Results indicate that third party intervention does affect perceptions disputants' have of one another and that such results vary based on the method used. In the vignettes, the method typical of research in third party intervention, intervention is negatively related to perceptions of the other party. However, the opposite is true in the laboratory experiment. The results from the laboratory suggest that third party intervention is positively related to perceptions of the other party and that both the increased likelihood of situational attributions and decreased salience of conflict with high third party intervention partially explain this relationship.Implications of these results, and potential areas of future research, are discussed.
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Fenn, Daniel. "Network communities and the foreign exchange market." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533893.
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Many systems studied in the biological, physical, and social sciences are composed of multiple interacting components. Often the number of components and interactions is so large that attaining an understanding of the system necessitates some form of simplication. A common representation that captures the key connection patterns is a network in which the nodes correspond to system components and the edges represent interactions. In this thesis we use network techniques and more traditional clustering methods to coarse-grain systems composed of many interacting components and to identify the most important interactions. This thesis focuses on two main themes: the analysis of financial systems and the study of network communities, an important mesoscopic feature of many networks. In the first part of the thesis, we discuss some of the issues associated with the analysis of financial data and investigate the potential for risk-free profit in the foreign exchange market. We then use principal component analysis (PCA) to identify common features in the correlation structure of different financial markets. In the second part of the thesis, we focus on network communities. We investigate the evolving structure of foreign exchange (FX) market correlations by representing the correlations as time-dependent networks and investigating the evolution of network communities. We employ a node-centric approach that allows us to track the effects of the community evolution on the functional roles of individual nodes and uncovers major trading changes that occurred in the market. Finally, we consider the community structure of networks from a wide variety of different disciplines. We introduce a framework for comparing network communities and use this technique to identify networks with similar mesoscopic structures. Based on this similarity, we create taxonomies of a large set of networks from different fields and individual families of networks from the same field.
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Mahon, Maureen F. "Parents and teachers in education, can social exchange theory explain the nature of the relationship?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ32175.pdf.
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Passewitz, Gregory R. "Social Exchange Theory and Volunteer Organizations: Patterns of Participation in Four Environmental/Natural Resource Organizations." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392653996.
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Komodromou, Janell. "Work-life balance benefits : employee attitudes and behaviors through the lens of social exchange theory." Thesis, Aston University, 2013. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/20857/.
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The question of what to provide employees in order that they reciprocate with desirable behaviors in the work place has resulted in a great amount of work in the area of social exchange. Although offering fair compensation, including salary or wages and employee benefits, has been extensively studied, the effects of offering specific types of benefits, such as work-life balance benefits, and the intangible rewards that such an offering inadvertently offers, has only been minimally explored. Utilizing past literature, this current research examined the offering of work-life balance benefits, the value employees place on those benefits, the communication of the benefits by the organization to employees, and their effect on employee attitudes and behaviors. The goal was to identify the effect on desirable outcomes when work-life balance benefits are offered to determine the usefulness to the organization of offering such benefits. To test these effects, a study of an organization known to offer a strong work-life balance benefits package was undertaken. This was accomplished through the distribution of questionnaires to identify the possible relationships involving 408 employee respondents and their 79 supervisors. This was followed with interviews of 12 individuals to ascertain the true reasons for links observed through analysis. Analysis of the data was accomplished through correlation analysis, multilevel analysis and regression analysis generated by SPSS. The results of the quantitative analysis showed support for a relationship between the offering of work-life balance benefits and perceived organizational support, perceived distributive justice, job satisfaction and OCBO. The analysis also showed a lack of support for a relationship between the offering of work-life balance benefits and organizational commitment, OCBI and IRB. The interviews offered possible reasons for the lack of support regarding the relationship between the offering of work-life balance benefits and organizational commitment as well as organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBI and IRB). The implications of these findings on future research, theory and practice in the offering of work-life balance benefits are discussed.
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Petyko, Imre. "Fair and balanced? Ecologically unequal exchange theory in the context of Sino-Brazilian trade relations." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-196089.
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Fisher, Michael T. "A Theory of Viral Growth of Social Networking Sites." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1363116627.
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Schaupp, Gretchen Lina. "An Experimental Study of Psychological Contract Breach: The Effects of Exchange Congruence in the Employer - Employee Relationship." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26652.
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Although the psychological contract has been a popular topic in managerial research for the past twenty years, recent critiques of the research in this area point to several shortcomings. These are believed to result primarily from the overwhelming use of field studies, survey questionnaires, and other correlational procedures in the study of this construct. One particular research question that has generated mixed results involves the effect that oneâ s underlying contract (either transactional or relational) has on individualsâ perceptions of contract breach and feelings of violation following an employerâ s breach. This study sought to gain insight into this question by using an experimental study design to assess the impact that exchange congruence â or the match between the nature of the underlying contract and the nature of the breach â has on employeesâ perceptions of breach and feelings of violation.
An experimental design was used and data was collected from 421 subjects in six treatment groups and two control groups. The treatment groups examined the effects of withdrawal breach (without resource substitutions) and both congruent and incongruent resource substitutions in transactional and relational work contexts. Also, two control groups in which no psychological breach was induced were examined. The results of the experiment differ for the transactional and relational treatments. No significant differences in perceptions of breach or violation were found with regard to the type of breach induced among the transactional treatments. Among the relational treatments, subjects that received incongruent resource substitutions perceived significantly higher levels of breach and violation than those that received congruent substitutions. Also, among the relational treatments, levels of perceived breach were significantly higher for the incongruent substitute treatment than for the withdrawal breach treatment. Therefore, the results of this study indicate that breach perceptions and feelings of violation vary for employees depending not only on the type of contract they hold, but the type of breach that they experience. In addition, the study demonstrated that an experimental design is applicable to this literature and that it could advance our understanding of the psychological contract in ways that are not possible with cross-sectional field studies.Ph. D.
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Corrigan, Michael W. "Social exchange theory, interpersonal communication motives, and volunteerism identifying motivation to volunteer and the rewards and costs associated /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2022.
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O'Malley, Lisa. "Relationship marketing in mass consumer markets : a critical review." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341261.
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Ryan, Fiona. "The part-time employment relationship : an investigation of its capabilities to meet the needs, wants and expectations of employees and employers." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285612.
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Wiklund, Frida, and Sandra Jansson. "Employee Loyalty and the Factors Affecting It : A qualitative study comparing people with different working experience on their view of employee loyalty." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-161047.
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Having high employee loyalty is something which most organisation strive to obtain. Not only because of the morals of it, but also because of the fact that high levels of employee loyalty have been proven in many studies to increase operational performance. However, the literature on the concept provides many different definitions on it, and also suggest many different factors that affect how loyal an employee feels towards their organisations. The studies conducted previously on the topic has mainly been quantitative studies researching the connection between levels of loyalty and performance, and at specific companies or industries. As soon to be newly graduated students, the authors of this study also found the lack of comparison between people with different working experience interesting. Due to these reasons, the purpose of this study was to dig deeper into the concept of employee loyalty, how it is defined and which factors that affect the level of loyalty an employee feels towards an organisation. The sub-purposes of this study involve comparing one group of people with 1-3 years of working experience to another group with more than 15 years of working experience. The research question that was developed to be answered in this thesis is as follows: How does the view upon employee loyalty and the factors affecting it differ between people whom have been working for more than 15 years versus 1-3 years? In order to answer the research questions and fulfil the purpose, a comparative qualitative study was conducted through semi-structured interviews. In line with some previous studies, the Social Identity theory and the Social Exchange theory were used in order to explain the factors affecting employee loyalty. The first focuses upon the level of identification the respondents feel towards different components of the organisation, while the other focuses on factors of exchange between the organisation and its employees. These theories, and theories connected to what employee loyalty is, was used in order to develop a conceptual model which served as a foundation for the data collection, empirical findings, and the analysis. The empirical findings of this thesis showed that while some definitions of employee loyalty and the factors which are affecting it are similar between the groups, there were also some differences. Employee loyalty was defined by most as someone whom has a behaviour and attitude which is positive, does what is expected from them and whom represents the company in a good manner. The difference between the groups regarding employee loyalty were that the group with more experience seem to have higher demand to classify someone as a loyal employee than the group with less experience has. Moreover, the most evident difference of what affects employee loyalty was that the factor competence development was by far most important for the groups with less experience, while a responsive organisation was what the group with more experience found important in order to keep employees loyal. Conclusions drawn from this study is that “softer” factors like the relationship’s employees have between each other, the organisational culture, and sense of opportunity for personal growth seem to be far more important for employees than physical benefits. Furthermore, there seem to be some differences regarding employee loyalty between groups with different levels of working experience which is why this thesis recommends organisations to be responsive to its employees’ needs and adapt their management to all employees.
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zhang, peng. "An Empirical Study of Health Information Exchange Success Factors." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3537.
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The healthcare system in the US faces substantial challenges related to cost, access and quality. Health Information Exchange (HIE) has been widely viewed as a viable solution for dealing with those challenges. Despite the potential contributions to the healthcare system that HIE promises, adoption and use of HIE have always been difficult, and the past two decades have witnessed significant HIE implementation failures.
The limited understanding of HIE is a major obstacle for HIE success. Only recently in-depth research about HIE starts to appear in top IS journals. In addition, the uniqueness of healthcare industry adds to the complexity to HIE. Our study attempts to address this research gap by systematically examining multiple factors that influence HIE adoption and use. Using social exchange theory (SET) and diffusion of innovations theory, a research model was developed to empirically test major factors that impact healthcare providers’ relative advantages and risks perceptions for adopting and using HIE. It is further proposed that relative advantages and risks in turn impact organizations’ intentions for adopting and continuously using HIE. As such, we posit that organizations’ assessments of relative advantages and risks associated with HIE mediate the impacts of organizational and technological factors on organizations’ adoption and use intentions.
This study uses questionnaire surveys for data collection. Out of a total of 163 responses, 117 surveys were completed and were analyzed using Partial Least Square software SmartPLS 3. Data analysis finds that most of the relationships were in the hypothesized directions with some of the relationships being significant. Specifically, top management support, absorptive capacity, trust, and HIE innovation characteristics positively affect relative advantages and negatively affect risk. Furthermore, relative advantages positively affect adoption/continuance intentions, whereas risk negatively affects adoption/continuance intentions.
This study contributes to the literature and offers important practical implications. It is one of the early empirical attempts to understand the key factors that affect HIE’s adoptions and use. The research can also serve as a starting point for more in-depth studies in the future. Moreover, practitioners can use the several newly-developed scales to empirically examine healthcare providers’ adoption and use intentions.
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Wong, Kai Tim (Douglas). "Essays on international stock markets and real exchange rate dynamics." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2019. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/41051/.
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This thesis aims to examine the long-run determinants of the real exchange rate, and to identify the sources of real exchange rate and relative stock price short-run fluctuations. In chapter 1, I incorporate the relative stock prices into the Dornbusch's Mundell-Fleming Real Exchange Rate Model in order to investigate the long-run relationship between the money, goods and stock markets. In chapter 2, I build on the work of Dornbusch (1976), Clarida and Gali (1994), Malliaropulos (1998) and Hoffmann and MacDonald (2000) in order to form the sticky-price equilibrium solution for identifying the source of real exchange rate fluctuation. In chapter 3, I empirically investigate whether the financial crises, the US monetary policy and the exchange rate regime switching of a country affect the real exchange rate co-moment. In addition to the cross-country real exchange rates correlation, the evolution of the equilibrium real exchange rates equicorrelation and temporary real exchange rates equicorrelation are also examined. In chapter 4, I present a model which builds on the stochastic rational expectations open macro model presented by Obstfeld (1985) and Clarida and Gali (1994) and incorporates Malliaropulos's (1998) theoretical relationship between the real exchange rate and the relative stock differential. The model provides both the short- and long-run flexible price solution for identifying the source of relative stock prices. In chapter 5, I attempt to investigate whether the exchange rate can predict future changes in the stock market return and in the economic performance of a country. I present a model that can be used for analysing whether the real exchange rate or the real exchange rate misalignment would contain an economically significant predictable component on forecasting the future stock price movement and the real output.
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Karlsson, Kathrin, and Matilda Sandberg. "Hyra kläder : utforskar den erfarna konsumentens upplevelser." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-26361.
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Att hyra kläder är ett fenomen som fått ökat intresse de senaste åren. Inte minst i forskningen där det visat sig komma med miljömässiga fördelar. Kläduthyrning är en form av cirkulär ekonomi och ett svar på textilindustrins negativa miljöpåverkan och dess linjära arbetssätt. Trots vetskapen om dessa existerar fortfarande en stor efterfrågan av nyproducerat mode, varför kläduthyrning kan vara ett hållbarare sätt att uppfylla konsumenternas behov att förnya sig. Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för hur konsumenter upplever kollektiv konsumtion, specifikt kläduthyrning. Med dess kvalitativa karaktär identifieras upplevda fördelar respektive nackdelar hos konsumenten samt skillnader och likheter mellan beprövade hyrkoncept. Datainsamlingen baserades på tolv semistrukturerade intervjuer med konsumenter som har erfarenhet av att hyra kläder. Respondenternas svar har analyserats genom Social Exchange Theory (SET) och sedan kategoriserats in i olika teman. Den teoretiska modellen har även stått som grund för att förstå hur konsumenterna väger fördelar och nackdelar mot varandra i valet att hyra kläder. Genom studiens identifierade teman kunde även upplevda skillnader och likheter mellan koncepten konstateras samt användas som underlag för att förstå varför konsumenterna upplever dessa olika. Utifrån respondenternas svar identifierades fem olika uthyrningsmodeller. Genom attapplicera SET urskiljdes sex hedonistiska respektive sex utilitariska motiv samt att tillit och låg risk var faktorer som spelade in. Studien kom även fram till en modifierad version av SET vilken indikerar att vissa faktorer väger tyngre än andra. Flera utilitariska faktorer sam tupplevd risk visade sig vara mer avgörande trots att konsumenterna upplevde fler fördelar gentemot nackdelar. Resultatet visade också att när konsumenter väl provat att hyra kläder är inställningen generellt positiv. Denna studie bidrar därför till en bredare kunskap om kollektiv konsumtion och affärsmodeller inom kläduthyrning. Studien kan även vara användbar i vidare forskning samt för utveckling av branschen och liknande affärsmodeller. Uppsatsens presenteras på svenska.Renting clothes is a phenomenon that has gained increased interest in recent years, not least in the research field where one has discovered environmental benefits. Clothing rentals are part of the circular economy and is a response to the negative environmental impact caused by the linear way of working in the textile industry. Despite this knowledge, there is still a high demand for newly produced fashion. Thus, renting clothes can be a way of fulfilling consumer needs to renew themselves with less negative environmental impact. The purpose of this study is to gain further understanding of how consumers experience collaborative consumption, specifically clothing rental. With its qualitative nature, this study identifies consumers perceived advantages and disadvantages as well as differences and similarities between rental models. By conducting twelve semi-structured interviews with experienced consumers data was collected. Through the lens of Social Exchange Theory (SET), the respondents’ answers could be categorized in to different themes. The theory also worked as a tool to analyze how consumers weigh perceived advantages and disadvantages when choosing whether or not to use a rental service. Through the identified themes, perceived differences and similarities between various rental services could be determined and used as a basis for understanding why consumers experience the concepts differently. Based on the answers of the respondents’, five different rental models were identified. By applying SET six hedonistic and six utilitarian motives was found. In addition, trust and reduced risk were important factors in the consumers decision. The research also resulted in a modified version of SET that implies that some factors weight heavier than others. Several of the utilitarian motives as well as perceived risk were more decisive, despite the fact that consumers experienced more advantages than disadvantages. The result also showed that once consumers have experienced the concept of renting clothes, their attitude is generally positive. Therefore, this study contributes to deeper knowledge about collaborative consumption and business models based on clothing rental. It can also be useful in further research as well as for the development of the industry and similar business models. This report is presented in Swedish.
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Buhusayen, Bassam. "The first-line manager’s role during radical organisational change: A social exchange perspective." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2295.
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This study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the first-line manager’s (FLM) role through Social Exchange Theory. It focuses on experiences of senior managers, FLMs and employees during radical organisational change (ROC). This phenomenological study used 40 semi-structured interviews analysed by thematic analysis. The study finds the FLM-employee relationship was underpinned by high reciprocity and group gain. FLMs also played an active role in facilitating ROC but they were challenged by inadequate resources and poor communication. FLMs overcame these obstacles by being pragmatic and by mobilising a social exchange-based strategy that gained employees’ buy-in and clients’ friendships.
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Boockoff, Shawn. "The Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchange and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in a Federal Government Organization." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2016. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_etd/87.
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This applied dissertation was a study of the relationship between leader-member exchange (LMX) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in a federal government organization in Washington, DC. As a result of the organization’s business and leadership challenges, understanding the relationship between a leader and a follower and extra-role behaviors may help to understand how high-quality relationships are developed with staff members that are productive and motivate staff to extend their efforts beyond normal expectations. Productive high-quality relationships demonstrate loyalty, consideration, and affect towards the organization and its leaders. Understanding the relationship between LMX and OCB in a federal government organization may help to produce greater awareness of the factors that lead to high-quality leader-member relationships. Knowing the characteristics of high-quality relationships may promote extra-role behaviors enabling increased job satisfaction and greater results. Federal organizations find that many employees have low job satisfaction. In addition, only 38% of federal workers believe leaders generate high levels of commitment. The researcher employed an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design that included surveys and interviews. The sample study was composed of 50 paired dyads from 433 employees of the target federal agency selected using convenience sampling. Survey instruments were used for demographics, LMX, and OCB to gather data. The results from the LMX and OCB instruments were used to formulate interview questions for a select group from the core sample represented by the top and bottom 5% of raw survey score totals. The targeted federal organization should benefit from this study. The results showed how differences in the quality of the relationship between a leader and a follower related to OCB, or extra-role behaviors and led to recommendations on leader-subordinate relationships.
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CHEN, MIN-WEN, and 陳敏文. "Facebook E-WOM intention: A perspective of social exchange theory and social support theory." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2ays5a.
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碩士國立中正大學
資訊管理系研究所
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Today, social media is a major communication medium for online users. Along the use of social media, electronic word-of-mouth (EWOM) is a common user behavior. Facebook ranks at top one social medium where the posts on food and dining ranks at top 5 topics. To understand the EWOM behavior, this study investigates that positive and negative EWOM over Facebook. Both social exchange theory and social support theory are applied in our study. In this study, we adopted focus group to interview four college students and three master students who have electronic word-of-mouth experience and we summarized four types of social support and three personality traits related to electronic word-of-mouth research, and then collected data by questionnaire survey. Partial Least Squares (PLS) and Structural Equation Model (SEM) were used as the main statistical analysis methods, and SmartPLS was used as the analysis tool. The results suggest that trust and social support are the major reason that influence customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction of Facebook, which in turn influence the positive and negative EWOM intention respectively. The theo-retical contribution of our study lies in the application of two social theories in online con-text. The empirical contribution is to provide our findings to e-retailors to create positive EWOM meanwhile to avoid negative EWOM. We found that trust and social support the-ory is applicable to Facebook users' e-word-of-mouth intention research, and that satisfac-tion does affect Facebook users' positive electronic word-of-mouth intentions.
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Sung, Kun-Lin, and 宋昆霖. "Exploring Team Collaboration Effectiveness Using Social Exchange Theory." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38591224791754863522.
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碩士萬能科技大學
經營管理研究所
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The booming of Internet, make human relations of the communication had a new way, e-mail, instant communication software, Skype internet telephone etc. The communication software publish, also let the modern people be happy to through the above-mentioned on-line communication tool, make friends with a new friend and interact with on-line net friend. Then, the enterprises will be quickly facing to change and compete vigorous of market, in the world, the more and more yeam formation based on the reducing the exploitation of personnel cost and exaltation resource to reach higher results. The online communications after tool publish, the employee in enterprise also use the on-line communication tool to carry on the cooperation on the work, especially the innovations of technology and the shortly product life cycles in the high-tech industries. The more depend on the team cooperation the more have the competition on the market in high-tech industry. This research study discuss the influence of collaboration effectiveness in trust, organization, and relational conflict between on-line team members based on Social Exchange Theory (SET).Also exploring on-line team members in addition the emotion of mutually depends on expressive of ties, outcome interdependence and task interdependence to the influence for trust. This survey released 569 questionnaires, returned in 542, 437 of which were valid focus on high-tech industry managers and employees. The response rate of questionnaires was 76.8%.use of Structure Equations modeling(SEM) as an information analysis methods, and The SAS System for Windows (8.2) statistical analysis software for data analysis. The data from the study was presented and analyzed. The data revealed a positive response in online trust among team members, organizational commitment to the effectiveness of collaboration; a negative response in the online team members on the relationship of trust between the conflict. The online team members between the expressive ties, outcome interdependence, task interdependencies of trust there were positive relations.
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Lai, Yiying, and 賴怡穎. "Investigate Cooperation of Blogging With Social Exchange Theory." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86116728911048900099.
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碩士靜宜大學
觀光事業學系
100
Recently, blog becomes an actively medium for individuals and companies for its operation accessibility. Articles on blogs are favored by public readers, business owners and marketing companies sense the business opportunity and the influence of bloggers, and start working with them. The form of collaboration can be vary, from payment for writing articles on the blogs to obtain free product sample and share the experience with their readers. Social exchange theory believes exchange behavior occurs when people looking for reward and prize. Based on the argument of social exchange theory, this research probes the relationship between bloggers, business owners and marketing companies. From the aspects of attraction, dependence, power, conflict, communication, trust and commitment, this research analyzes the equality and reaction pattern among bloggers, business owners and marketing companies. By interviewing bloggers, the research result shows attraction, dependence, power and conflict are serial factors influence each other in the cooperation procedure. Payments for articles and demand of media resource decide the dependence & power relationship. The most common conflict results from that, marketing companies fail to communicate. The importance of communication before working together is manifest, and formal contract secures the cooperation relationship for both sides.
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Cheng, Min-Jhih, and 鄭敏芝. "An Integrated Model of Knowledge Providing and Receiving – Social Exchange Theory and Social Cognitive Theory." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u8upmx.
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博士國立中央大學
企業管理學系
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Over the years, internet technology has promoted the development of social network sites (SNS), and has also become the most frequently-used knowledge-sharing tool through the interactions between members. However, from the perspective of the community management, it is still undecided as to how to effectively promote the knowledge provided between community members and attract users to receive knowledge. Most research papers in the past mainly focused on analyzing knowledge-sharing behavior based on either the individual or organizational levels. Combining aspects of social cognitive theory and social exchange theory, this study provides another cross-level perspective to examine the integration effect on the basis of the individual and community environment levels, and establishes a research model of knowledge-providing and -receiving behaviors. The purpose of this study is to explore how users' knowledge-sharing behavior in virtual communities is affected by the external environment and by the personal cognitive factor. This study investigates 28 virtual communities over three years, yielding 552 valid questionnaire testing results through hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). The findings of this study reveal that perceived ease of use affects knowledge self-efficacy and also promotes knowledge-providing behavior on an individual aspect. On the other hand, community norms can encourage knowledge-providing behavior in the external community environment. Moreover, community trust can effectively enhance knowledge-receiving behavior, and community reciprocal can also promote knowledge-providing and -receiving behavior.
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Nai-ChangCheng and 鄭乃彰. "Understanding Knowledge Sharing among IT Professionals Based on Social Cognitive Theory and Social Exchange Theory." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77463695368379552494.
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Yang, Yi, and 楊翊. "Understanding SaaS continuance—social exchange theory and service quality." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rg9rnb.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
資訊管理系企業電子化碩士班
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“Cloud computing”is the hot topic nowadays,Saas is working through rent,company can decrease costs of software development and maintenance. Therefore company will increase amount of request in the future,so regard SaaS as research subject. It combines with Social-Exchange theory to research about if users think it’s helpful when they are using SaaS,then they can trust and use it continuously. It adopts questionnaire survey with workers who ever used SaaS,with 203 valid questionnaires returned,via PLS statistical analysis,and make 4 conclusions,including: (1)outcome-based service quality of SaaS is positively affects to the competence-trust. (2) outcome-based service quality of SaaS is positively affects to the competence-trust. (3)competence-trust is positively affects to the intention of continuous (4)Openness-trust is positively affects to the intention of continuous
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Nel, Johannes Petrus. "Employee engagement using social exchange theory within Standard Bank." 2014. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001552.
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M. Tech. Business AdministrationWithin the procurement department in Standard Bank a low level of employee engagement is experienced. The aim of this research study is to better understand where to enhance engagement through the application of the social exchange theory model from Saks (2006)
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Nowita and 甘慧霞. "Leader-Member Exchange, Goal Orientation, and Employee Performance: An Applicationof the Social Exchange Theory." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33276997356955541211.
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碩士國立成功大學
國際經營管理研究所
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The study integrates the social exchange and the goal orientations theories to examine the effects of leader-member exchange(LMX) on employee performance through the mediation of goal orientations. Analytical data collected from Indonesia show that LMX indeed can advance both learning and performance goal orientations. Although performance goal orientation can improve both employee task and innovative performance, learning goal orientation can promote task performance only. Moreover, performance goal orientation partially mediates the relationship between LMX and employee task performance. The study contributes to the social exchange theory by identifying critical mediators that help convert the social relationships between a leader and his/her subordinates into effective performance outcomes.
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WEI-HUNG, HSU, and 許偉泓. "Knowledge Sharing and OpenSource Software Development Research：from the Perspective of Social-Exchange Theory and Social-Capital Theory." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/v4ngyj.
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碩士國立中正大學
資訊管理學系碩士在職專班
105
In today's knowledge explosion of modern society, the behavior of resource sharing is an inevitable trend, and in this research referred to the open source term, not just limited to software development, open source is a life attitude, but also represents the Today 's Public Reflection on Public Affairs. This research is based on the data of questionnaire collecting from internet. And also public the questionnaire link on shopping forums and network social media, The method of data analysis is based on the module equation. And use "SmartPLS3.0" as the major analysis tool to verify the relation of variables, The result of research reveal the variable of SET “Reciprocity” will not impact on the behavior of knowledge sharing directly, But the other variables of SET and SCT will do. And Also the KS impact the efficient of OSSD. In view of the fact that knowledge sharing is the main topic in the application of information technology today, this research attempts to combine the social capital theory(SCT)、social exchange theory(SET) and in psychology and social observation theory of the key factors in order to explore the source software development process and results of the foundation, This paper attempts to summarize and improve the knowledge-sharing behavior of the users through the mediating variables of KS and identify other variables that may influence the sharing of knowledge among relevant personnel, such as developers, discussion forum users and other related development communities.
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Chang, Chih-Han, and 張智涵. "Building the Model of Sport Tourism Development: Based on the Social Exchange Theory and Social Identity Theory." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58y324.
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博士臺北市立大學
競技運動訓練研究所
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Objective: This study investigated the benefits of recreation and construction of sports tourism development attitudes in the Tianmu area through social science research. Methods: The questionnaire survey method was used to study the audience at the 2017 World University Games Tianmu Baseball Stadium and Diving Venue. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's product moment correlation, simple regression, stepwise multiple regression and structural equations, and tourism cost method were used in the study. Total of 675 questionnaires were collected. Results: The average score of participants in sports and tourism development attitude was 3.93. In the social exchange theory, the influence of attitude on appreciation motivation to sports tourism might be increased, through the positive impact of tourism and public participation. In the social identity theory, the influence of national identity could be increased on sports tourism through the popular participation and positive impact of tourism. The negative impact on tourism in this study wasn’t significant statistically. The average recreational benefits was approximently NT﹩1138.46 per person, and the overall economic return was NT﹩110,311,081. Conclusions: (1) Participants had positive attitudes toward sports and tourism development. (2) It were proved that the theory of social exchange theory and social identity theory. (3) The relationship among the various attitudes toward sports tourism development attitudes were except for the negative impact of tourism moderately positively correlated. (4) The predictive factors of sports tourism development attitude were influenced by the positive impact of public participation and tourism. (5) The attitude model for sports tourism development was established. (6) The economic return of sports tourism was NT﹩110,311,081.
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Gillis, Lynette Rylander 1976. "A network perspective of multiple social exchange relationships." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3852.
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Members of organizations form relationships with many different people in their organization. Exchange theory provides a basis for analyzing how these organizational relationships function in two different ways. Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory describes how an employee's relationship with his/her leader influences his/her attitudes and behaviors, while coworker exchange theory (CWX) focuses on the attitudes and behaviors that result from relationships between coworkers. Few researchers have investigated how leader-member exchange theory and co-worker exchange theory work together to affect employee level attitudes and behaviors. In this dissertation, I use a social network framework to synthesize and articulate the confluence of leader-member exchange and coworker exchange theories. Based on a review of the literature on leader-member exchange and coworker exchange, I argue that these co-occurring social exchange processes combine to affect attitudes and behaviors. Using outcome measures of performance and affective commitment, I develop hypotheses testing how employees' social networks of coworkers affect these employees' behaviors and attitudes in the leader-member relationship. This study uses employees in a large USA-based retail organization. I gather data from multiple sources including the employees and their leaders. Using the computer program UCINET, I calculate social network matrix manipulations. I also use SPSS to calculate regressions to test my hypotheses. This dissertation contributes to our understanding of 1) joint effects of various social exchange relationships in the context of specific leader member relationships and 2) the different aspects of a social network framework that differentially influence organizational outcomes.text
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Wang, Yu-Ying, and 王愉瑛. "Financial Managers Knowledge-Sharing Behavior -The Social Exchange Theory Perspective." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47187371882468379974.
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碩士國立高雄大學
高階經營管理碩士在職專班(EMBA)
102
This study mainly explored whether the financial and non-financial factors of organization incentives would affect financial executive’s knowledge-sharing behavior from the viewpoint of social exchange theory. It’s indicated from the actual interviews of this study that knowledge-sharing behavior is an exchange and can contribute to achieve organizational goals through effective communication; organization provides appropriate incentives to motivate employees to share knowledge with each other. However, the most important purpose of sharing knowledge by financial executive is to establish a sharing mechanism in the organization so that staff won’t take knowledge away because of demission. This study took a total of twelve financial executives of seven companies from manufacturing industry, construction industry, traditional industry and financial services industry, etc., as research subjects and found through the actual interview analysis that the factors influencing knowledge-sharing behavior results were as follows: I. In terms of financial factors: financial executive believed influence had relations, generally considering that it lay in the configuration of the incentive award amount. II. For non-financial factors, financial executive’s considerations in sharing behavior were: (A) Personal reputation (promotion) accounted for the largest and major consideration factor influence. (B) Altruism and mutual benefit accounted for the second consideration factor influence knowledge-sharing behavior. The mutual benefit lies in establishing trust relationship, which is easier to increase knowledge-sharing behavior. (C) For team performance and honor, financial executive is willing to take initiative to provide knowledge sharing with members to find a sense of accomplishment to and contribute, in addition to exerting the responsibility as a financial executive. (D) If the boss or a supervisor publicly praises and commends the behavior of financial executives, the finance executive would be more willing to contribute and work harder for the company. Since the industries are different, knowledge-sharing behavior is also different on the surface, with the results as follows: 1. Manufacturing industry: attaches much importance to education and training, and more complete staff training are expect to improve the overall reliability and performance. 2. Construction industry: building management platform is considered to be implemented by the support of supervisor knowledge-sharing system. 3. Traditional industry: attaches much importance to personal professional knowledge and skills; the overall competitiveness of enterprises can be increased through education training and education after the inheritance and absorption of knowledge. 4. Financial services industry: increases incentives to make knowledge sharing become a part of the jobs. Conclusions: the following recommendations are proposed based on the findings: (1) Knowledge-sharing mechanism: provides diverse pipelines and space for knowledge sharing, increases formal and informal opportunities for interaction among organizational members and enhance colleague friendship to promote the willingness of sharing knowledge. (2) Education and training mechanisms: takes the role of supervisor as a lecturer, shares knowledge with learners and transfers knowledge to employees through training process. In addition to the experience heritage of supervisor, members can also enter the company situation and be familiar with the work as soon as possible. (3) Performance and promotion system: link both the presentation of employees' knowledge-sharing behavior and performance promotion system; change knowledge-sharing into a part of the staff work projects to improve knowledge sharing value. (4) Increase the incentives to encourage sharing: includes financial and non-financial incentives to enhance sharing willingness.
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Liu, Yi-Chin, and 劉宜瑾. "Why consumers begin and keep blogging? From social exchange theory." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79069412088454504362.
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碩士國立臺北大學
企業管理學系
101
The number of blog readers is increasing in recent years, benefiting the company and BSP of blogs. Blogger, company and BSP of blogs form a new type of business model and the blogger play an important role in this model. This study adopts multiple case methods, and conducts interviews and secondary data. Aimed to understand why consumers as bloggers begin and keep blogging, this research takes motivation theory as classification for consumers' blogging individual motivations, and social exchange theory to explain group level blogging motivations. The result reveals that "interests for products", "document my life", "communication with others" and "extrinsic rewards from BSP of blogs" are positively related to consumers' initial blogging motivation. "Altruism", "bandwagon effect", "snob effect", "interests for blogging", "sense of self-worth", "reputation" and "extrinsic rewards from company" explain why consumers keep blogging. At the beginning, reference group to consumers is virtual reference group and then turns into a new reference group-- passion expert reference group, which is combined from virtual reference groups and direct reference groups.
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Wu, Chao-Sen, and 吳朝森. "An Exploratory Analysis of Team Members'' Knowledge Sharing – Integrating Social Exchange Theory and Social Cognitive Theory." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/t5st48.
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碩士崑山科技大學
企業管理研究所
92
Knowledge sharing is an inevitable tendency to improve team effectiveness. This study mainly explores the relationships among team interaction, team trust, self-efficacy, knowledge sharing and team effectiveness. The results indicate that vertical team interaction, lateral and verticals’ team trust, self-efficacy have positive effects on knowledge sharing. Among member background and team characteristics, only team members’ age has a positive effect on knowledge sharing. Furthermore, it appears that knowledge sharing is positively correlated to team effectiveness.
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Yeh, I.-ling, and 葉怡伶. "Understanding Intention for Knowledge Contribution in Virtual Communities-Social Exchange Theory." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/575pp5.
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Hsu, Chien-hua, and 許建華. "Antecedents, Collaboration and Supply Chain Performance:A Perspective of Social Exchange Theory." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60148662594899459858.
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碩士國立中正大學
資訊管理所
96
In the modern society, with the development of information technology, the interaction or collaboration between companies is increasingly complicated. Therefore, improving the efficiency of supply chain performance is an essential issue under such variable circumstances. In present supply chain, upstream and downstream enterprise''s interaction and collaboration act important factors. We can understand that the four factors（trust, commitment, reciprocity and power） based on social exchange theory that can affect both inter-organization information sharing and the collaboration. Object of study is first 1500 enterprises in Taiwan. The findings are that the four factors affect information sharing and the three factors affect collaboration. Both information sharing and collaboration can improve supply chain performance.
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Liao, Ying, and 廖瑩. "A Consumer’s Group-Buying Intention Study from Social Exchange Theory Perspective." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06375218892647171856.
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碩士國立屏東商業技術學院
資訊管理系(所)
99
In the present prices, online group-buying has become a good way to save money, because it is through the initiator launch group-buying on the online group-buying website, to the amount of system price, which allows the goods than the other way to be more expensive to buy . In this study, social exchange theory as the theoretical foundation, coupled with buying habits (impulse buying, hedonic need) and subjective norm dimension, to explore consumers’ intention to join online group-buying. The study by questionnaire survey to collect online group-buying memberships’ intention to join online group-buying, and language analysis with dry analysis consumers’ reviews of the initiator. The results showed: (1)The website’ reputation, subjective norm, hedonic need, the initiator’ commitment has significant effects on consumers’ intention to join online group-buying; (2)The subjective norm has significant effects on impulsive buying; (3)The website’ reputation has significant effects on consumers’ trust of website and initiator; (4)Reviews of the quality has significant effects on consumers’ trust of initiator; (5)The consumers’ trust of initiator has significant effects on initiator’ commitment; (6)In this study, it is important to found the initiator’ commitment plays a mediator to consumers’ trust of initiator and consumers’ intention to join online group-buying. Finally, introduction academic and practical contribution of this study.
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Wang, Li-wen, and 王麗雯. "Online shopping Users’ Intention: An Integrating Perspective of Transaction Cost Theory and Social Exchange Theory." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23370165056659630875.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
國際管理碩士學位學程
103
Integrating a perspective of transaction cost theory and social exchange theory, this study presents a theoretical model for understanding consumers’ online purchase intention. An empirical study was conducted to examine the model. The results indicate that consumers’ intention to purchase online is negatively associated with their perceived transaction cost, and perceived transaction cost is associated with resources of ethnic, personal, strong tie, weak tie, direct and indirect quanxi. Furthermore, impulse buying, attraction, subjective norm, trust and environment will influence purchase intention when consumer consider online shopping. According to the results of empirical study, implications and suggestion for future research are discussed.