Surviving Bad Business Behavior: Network Stucture and Trust Penalty

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 12502
Author(s):  
Sonja Opper ◽  
Na Zou
Keyword(s):  
Business Behavior ◽  
Behavior Network

Effects of accelerator type on stress relaxation behavior and network structure of aged natural rubber/chloroprene rubber vulcanizates

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 381-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzad A Nobari Azar ◽  
Murat Şen
Keyword(s):  
Stress Relaxation ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Relaxation Behavior ◽  
Stress Relaxation Behavior ◽  
Rubber Blends ◽  
Chloroprene Rubber ◽  
Weather Changes ◽  
Behavior Network

Natural rubber/chloroprene rubber (NR/CR) blends are among the commonly used rubber blends in industry and continuously are exposed to severe weather changes. To investigate the effects of accelerator type on the network structure and stress relaxation of unaged and aged NR/CE vulcanizates, tetramethyl thiuram disulfide, 2-mercaptobenzothiazole, and diphenyl guanidine accelerators have been chosen to represent fast, moderate, and slow accelerator groups, respectively. Three batches have been prepared with exactly the same components and mixing conditions differing only in accelerator type. Temperatures scanning stress relaxation and pulse nuclear magnetic resonance techniques have been used to reveal the structural changes of differently accelerated rubber blends before and after weathering. Nonoxidative thermal decomposition analyses have been carried out using a thermogravimetric analyzer. Results indicate that there is a strong interdependence between accelerator type and stress relaxation behavior, network structure, cross-linking density, and aging behavior of the blends. Accelerator type also affects decomposition energy of the blends.

Corporate Control and Business Behavior

1971 ◽  
Vol 119 (5) ◽  
pp. 888
Author(s):  
Carl Kaysen ◽  
Oliver E. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Control ◽  
Business Behavior

On Social Psychology, Business Ethics, and Corporate Governance

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 725-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy L. Fort
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethical Business ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Large Corporations ◽  
Business Behavior

Abstract:This paper is a response to a recent colloquy among Professors David Messick, Donna Wold, and Edwin Harman. I defend Messick’s naturalist methodology, which suggests that people inherently categorize others and act altruistically toward certain people in a given person’s in-group. This paper suggests that an anthropological reason for this grouping tendency is a limited human neural ability to process large numbers of relationships. But because human beings also have the ability to modify, to some extent, their nature, corporate law can organize small mediating institutions within large corporations in order to take ethical advantage of this grouping tendency. Within a corporate law taking seriously a mediating institution’s formulation of business communities, a virtue ethics approach can be integrated with a naturalist approach in a way that fosters ethical business behavior while mitigating the dangers of ingrouping tendencies.

scholarly journals Selected skills required for sustainable small and medium businesses

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-388
Author(s):  
Jean-Marie Mwepu Mbuya ◽  
Maria Bounds ◽  
G. Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Growth And Survival ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Business Behavior ◽  
Medium Businesses ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

The objective of the study was to determine to what extent the selected skills contribute to the growth and the sustainability of small and medium businesses. In an attempt to understand the underlying factors contributing to the high failure rate of small and medium businesses, this study focused on the extent to which small and medium business owners from two age groups perceived five identified skills generally associated with entrepreneurial and business behavior as conducive to either success or failure. A lack of entrepreneurial and business skills impacts on the growth and survival of small and medium businesses in the Johannesburg Metropole. A quantitative study approach using structured survey questionnaires was used amongst 150 small and medium businesses in the Johannesburg Metropole. Factor analysis was used to analyze the responses gathered from the survey. Findings indicated that all selected entrepreneurial skills (leadership, creativity and innovation, networking, goal-setting and time management) appeared to be critical for small and medium businesses sustainability and growth. Although previous researches have indicated that entrepreneurial skills played crucial role in small and medium businesses sustainability, this study highlighted some of the key skills and attributes that SMEs owners should possess in order to operate their business ventures successfully

scholarly journals International markets entry strategy determinants: an exploratory study in Peru

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (59) ◽  
pp. 2-19
Author(s):  
Fernando Robles ◽  
Kety Lourdes Jauregui
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Entry Strategy ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Cultural Affinity ◽  
Business Behavior ◽  
A Company ◽  
Levels Of Integration

Nowadays a progressively more dynamic and global economic environment causes a higher number of enterprises to pick an entry strategy to become international. The choice of a strategy of entry into foreign markets constitutes one of the most relevant decisions for a company, for it impacts on its performance and means it being ready to cooperate, to a greater or lesser extent, with global supply chains. The present article identifies the determining factors of the strategies of entry into international markets as implemented by Peruvian businessmen, which impact on the integration level into an international market. The companies that participated in this exploratory study have growing exportation levels within the non-traditional sector. The results allow to appreciate exporters employing entry strategies with low levels of integration, and predominantly prefer low-risk markets and high resemblance to the Peruvian market, with regards to cultural affinity and business behavior.

scholarly journals Linking genes, circuits, and behavior: network connectivity as a novel endophenotype of externalizing

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 1905-1913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Sadeh ◽  
Jeffrey M. Spielberg ◽  
Mark W. Logue ◽  
Jasmeet P. Hayes ◽  
Erika J. Wolf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Externalizing Disorders ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Brain Circuit ◽  
Behavior Network ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Polygenic Variation

AbstractBackgroundExternalizing disorders are known to be partly heritable, but the biological pathways linking genetic risk to the manifestation of these costly behaviors remain under investigation. This study sought to identify neural phenotypes associated with genomic vulnerability for externalizing disorders.MethodsOne-hundred fifty-five White, non-Hispanic veterans were genotyped using a genome-wide array and underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. Genetic susceptibility was assessed using an independently developed polygenic score (PS) for externalizing, and functional neural networks were identified using graph theory based network analysis. Tasks of inhibitory control and psychiatric diagnosis (alcohol/substance use disorders) were used to measure externalizing phenotypes.ResultsA polygenic externalizing disorder score (PS) predicted connectivity in a brain circuit (10 nodes, nine links) centered on left amygdala that included several cortical [bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) pars triangularis, left rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC)] and subcortical (bilateral amygdala, hippocampus, and striatum) regions. Directional analyses revealed that bilateral amygdala influenced left prefrontal cortex (IFG) in participants scoring higher on the externalizing PS, whereas the opposite direction of influence was observed for those scoring lower on the PS. Polygenic variation was also associated with higher Participation Coefficient for bilateral amygdala and left rACC, suggesting that genes related to externalizing modulated the extent to which these nodes functioned as communication hubs.ConclusionsFindings suggest that externalizing polygenic risk is associated with disrupted connectivity in a neural network implicated in emotion regulation, impulse control, and reinforcement learning. Results provide evidence that this network represents a genetically associated neurobiological vulnerability for externalizing disorders.

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