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The triphasic model of job stressors of a salesperson is compared with the corresponding linear-quadratic-interactive model. The salespersons' job satisfaction, life satisfaction, performance and turnover intention exhibit are examined with respect to the role ambiguity, role conflict, job stress and work-family conflict.

Researchers have explored different models within the literature of marketing and management that examine the relationship between market and orientation entrepreneurship, and performance. A new model is offered that includes curvilinearity in the moderating effect of entrepreneurship on the relationship between market orientation and performance and its managerial and theoretical implications are discussed.

The market orientation scale and scales of other constructs when applied to a study of Saudi Arabian manufacturing firms showed lack of reliability and validity. This may be attributed to their modifications of the original scales. Inadequate internal consistency of the scale of top management risk aversion is also attributed to the fact that the way Saudi Arabian managers perceive risk is different from the risk perception of their Western counterparts.

Purpose – A wealth of research has explored different configurations of consumer environmental beliefs, attitudes, and values, and their influence on consumer environmental behavior. It is essential that a more comprehensive understanding of what lies at the root of consumer environmental beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviors be developed. This study aims to address some of the limitations in the current literature by theorizing and examining a consumer environmental behavior model that includes three antecedents, a mediator, and a moderator construct. The authors offer a new configuration that includes moderated and mediated effects of consumer cognitive, psycho-social and demographics variables on consumer environmental behavior. Design/methodology/approach – This study was administered to respondents from Saudi Arabia. The sample consists of Saudi-Arabians, non-Saudi Arabs, Americans, Europeans, South-East Asians, sub-continentals as well as other expatriates. Unavailability of sample frames necessitated the past researchers to use some kind of judgmental sampling techniques in Saudi Arabia. A total of 677 usable responses were used for this study. Findings – The model included three antecedents – consumer environmental awareness, consumer perception of human-nature relationship, and consumer perception of local environmental condition – representing the most important categories of predictors of environmental behavior identified in meta-analysis. The effects of these antecedents on consumer environmental behavior were mediated by consumer environmental responsibility, which, in turn, influenced consumer environmental behavior. The model also assumed that consumer faith in science and technology moderated all the four relationships involving antecedents, mediator and the outcome. Originality/value – The findings of the study identified several important observations. First, the roles of environmental psycho-social and cognitive variables in determining consumer environmental behavior are contingent upon levels of faith in science and technology and may not be direct but rather indirect through the mediator of consumer environmental responsibility. More importantly, the authors have provided support for a non-conventional moderated and mediated model of consumer environmental behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – The current study seeks to provide predictions for task conflict in supervisor-subordinate dyads and to test empirically the mediation effects of task conflict between organizational culture/subordinate values and subordinate outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – Structural equation modeling was employed to test the theoretical model. Findings – It was found that task conflict mediates the relationship between a clan culture and intention to quit. Additionally, support was also found for the mediating effect of task conflict on the relationship between individualistic values and intention to quit. Research limitations/implications – More research is needed to take into consideration the variables influencing task conflict in both vertical and horizontal dyadic relationships. A dynamic view of conflict may further contribute to the existing literature. Practical implications – More remedies are needed in organizations to foster positive employees' attitudes and wellbeing through the generation of task conflicts. For example, fostering a clan culture instead of a hierarchy may be vital. Originality/value – The current study demonstrates that organizational culture/subordinate's values may be linked to different subordinate outcomes through task conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to explain how consumer interest in catalogs is determined. A number of factors are identified that influence consumer interest in catalogs. These factors include a set of economic and social factors, and consumer perceived risk, demographics, and prior experience. The influence of these factors on consumer interest in catalogs is tested using data from Saudi Arabia, an emerging market. Results indicate that the economic and social factors influence consumer interest in catalogs. Also, consumer perceived risk, education, income and prior experience are related to consumer interest in catalogs, while gender and marital status are not. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]