What is the critical mass of help? A potential resolution to a paradox on citizenship and organizational performance
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DOI: 10.1007/s10588-020-09318-5
Abstract: Prior explanations for the observed result that employee cooperation demonstrates both positive and negative relationships with organizational performance often require psychological reactions or cognitions. We use an agent-based model to assume away these effects and… read more here.
Keywords: critical mass; performance; organizational performance; mass help ... See more keywords
Do women directors contribute to R&D? The role of critical mass and expert power
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DOI: 10.1007/s10997-020-09513-1
Abstract: The paper provides insights into the implications for innovation input of having women on company boards. It sheds light on the effects of critical mass and expert power of women directors, and the moderating role… read more here.
Keywords: expert power; innovation; women directors; critical mass ... See more keywords
Alternative determination of critical mass flow rate for the photovoltaic solar thermal collector in forced fluid mode
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DOI: 10.1016/j.csite.2020.100805
Abstract: Abstract From existing equations, which have been validated by experimental measurements in the literature, the photovoltaic (PV) cell efficiency for the photovoltaic solar thermal collector (PVT), cooled by forced fluid flow, is shown to be… read more here.
Keywords: critical mass; flow rate; mass flow; flow ... See more keywords
Happiness and freedom in direct action: critical mass bike rides as ecstatic ritual, play, and temporary autonomous zones
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DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2018.1480650
Abstract: ABSTRACT Most leisure research does not consider collective action and social change, while most social movement research overlooks carnivality and spontaneity. A counter-example is the alternative bicycling movement critical mass (CM), a rebellious, liberatory leisure… read more here.
Keywords: freedom; autonomous zones; temporary autonomous; happiness freedom ... See more keywords
Global instability by runaway collisions in nuclear stellar clusters: Numerical tests of a route for massive black hole formation.
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1253 10.48550/arxiv.2209.15066
Abstract: The centers of galaxies host nuclear stellar clusters, supermassive black holes, or both. The origin of this dichotomy is still a mystery. Nuclear stellar clusters are the densest stellar system in the Universe, so they… read more here.
Keywords: runaway collisions; nuclear stellar; stellar clusters; formation ... See more keywords
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives
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DOI: 10.1177/1532673x221077931
Abstract: Critical mass theories predict that women in government will sponsor and vote for more women and feminist bills as their numbers increase. Using Voteview.com data of roll-call votes measuring left–right ideology from 1977 to 2019… read more here.
Keywords: house; among women; ideological divides; divides among ... See more keywords