The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from December 1994

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from December 1994

Mythology, Joseph Campbell, and the socioeconomic conflict. (mythologist)(includes appendix)
December 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION The discipline of socioeconomics, in its aim to study how individuals resolve the conflict between self-interest and their need to be part of a community of shared values, draws upon many other disciplines. These include the...

Economic reform in Latin America and the prospects for distributive justice: the market, neoliberal theory, and the state.
December 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION Many countries in Latin America are currently undergoing a profound economic transition from a highly protectionist, monopolistic, and state-controlled economic system to a market-oriented system based on free trade, investment,...

Job satisfaction and firm size: an interactionist perspective.
December 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION There is a growing need for better understanding of how the differing circumstances of small versus large firms affect human resource and subsequent economic productivity issues. For instance, it is largely accepted that employee...

Strategic groups: a resource-based approach.
December 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION Analysis of competition is one of the principal concerns of strategic management research, and few competitive concepts have sparked as much interest and debate among strategy researchers as the concept of strategic groups. In...

Economic returns to community and four-year college education.
December 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION Although community college enrollment increased ten-fold between the years 1960-1980, there is little research on the economic effects of attending a community college. Today, a majority of first-time freshmen begin their higher...

Organizational commitment, satisfaction, and turnover in Saudi organizations: a predictive study.
December 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION Turnover is an important organizational outcome with costly and disruptive effects. Efforts have been made to study this behavior with the objective of understanding the causes behind it. One line of research has been established...

Are Haligonians Ricardian? A survey of households' saving response to the government's budget deficits. (households in Halifax, Canada; economist David Ricardo's equivalence theory)(includes appendix)
December 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION The proposition that government's dissaving in the form of a budget deficit induces an equal offsetting increase in private saving, leaving the national saving rate unchanged, has been the subject of much controversy ever since...