Loyalty Research Articles

Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty (review)

Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty (review)

Abundância sazonal de aves migratórias na Área de Proteção Ambiental de Piaçabuçu, Alagoas, Brasil

Every year, thousands of limicola and migratory birds winter on the South American coast, between September and April, where they acquire body mass and undergo moulting before returning to their reproduction sites. Qualitative and quantitative studies were performed in the Piacabucu Protection Area located in the state of Alagoas, Brazil, by direct counting, aiming to follow upon the birds’ seasonal migration. Five species of Charadriidae family were recorded: Vanellus chilensis (Wagler, 1827); Pluvialis squatarola (Linnaeus, 1758); Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825; Charadrius collaris Vieillot, 1818 and Charadrius wilsonia (Ord, 1814), and five of the Scolopacidae family: Arenaria interpres (Linnaeus, 1758); Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766); Catoptrophorus semipalmatus (Gmelin, 1789); Calidris pusilla (Linnaeus, 1766) and Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764). Pluvialis squatarola, Charadrius semipalmatus, Charadrius collaris, Arenaria interpres, Calidris pusilla and Calidris alba were considered constant (present in over 50% of observation time). Charadrius semipalmatus and Calidris alba showed highest level of frequency during November and December and March and September, respectively. Spearman correlation shows a strong dependency on migration of this species. The birds’ loyalty to the Piacabucu area seen in this research show that this is a preferred site for wintering thus reinforcing its importance for the conservation of the migratory species that utilize the site.

L'apriorisme des Autrichiens

Résumé L’apriorisme radical prôné par Mises et Rothbard a été maintes fois dénoncé avec véhémence. Sans chercher le moindrement à réhabiliter cette thèse intempérante, on s’intéressera à l’intuition d’origine kantienne qui est à sa racine. En prenant pour exemple la "loi" de l’utilité marginale décroissante, on élaborera une expérience imaginaire qui permettra de comparer l’attachement des économistes envers ce genre de loi à celui que, selon Kuhn, les physiciens éprouvent à l’égard de leurs théories. Cette discussion permettra alors de préciser et d’illustrer en quoi consiste la condition d’intelligibilité dont on a cru indûment pouvoir dériver une thèse résolument aprioriste.

Loyalty Myths: Hyped Strategies That Will Put You Out of Business and Proven Tactics That Really Work

Loyalty Myths: Hyped Strategies That Will Put You Out of Business and Proven Tactics That Really Work

Closely Fought Elections and the Institutionalization of Democracy

This article looks at how closely fought elections today and historically have provided unique opportunities to advance the institutionalization of democracy, as political and social actors accept outcomes determined by laws, formal procedures, and established institutions. The author then looks at such democratic contests as promoters and controllers of the expression of partisan loyalties on the part of the electorate, such that politics, instead of being the continuation of war by other means, has be converted into a perpetual democratic peace, in which each choice-however meaningful-is only another episode in a meta-process of nonchoice (a collective commitment not to bid for power outside the electoral framework). A review of various old democracy experiences shows how this culture of acceptance of formally corroborated results is arduously constructed over time and how multiple and overlapping legal, social, domestic, external, local, and national sources of reinforcement come into play. A wide array of social and political actors must suppress differences and unite around the legitimacy and probity of the results. This reversal of stance can be hard to achieve even in the most stable and irreproachable of old democracies. It demands an exceptional degree of discipline, unity, and public spiritedness in new democracies, where the passions raised by a closely fought campaign may be harder to control. A consensual outcome, therefore, can never be taken for granted and requires constant vigilance and renewal by successive generations; making exceptions for some parties or groups will call into question the integrity of the entire electoral process. The author argues that, barring some obviously disastrous formulae, there is no single right formula to produce such a consensus on outcome, as each outcome must fit with the distinctive history and political understandings of each society. The author discusses possible explanations for why there are more closely fought elections than one might expect from a normal distribution of cases, and concludes with a consideration of the specific dynamics of intense but orchestrated competition in closely fought elections, and of the overriding need for a single authoritative procedure to corroborate results.

The Influence of Service Recovery Evaluation on Customer Post-Complaint Behavior

Several studies have focused on the influence of service recovery efforts on customers’ post-complaint responses. However, customer outcomes consisting of responses that can lead to long-term buyer-seller relationships have not been thoroughly investigated. Using a customer sample in an emerging economy,Chile, this paper studies the relationship between service recovery evaluation (SRE) and a long-term customer post-complaint behavior (LTC-PCB) consisting of customer trust, relationship commitment, and loyalty. With regard to SRE dimensions, the study shows that compensation and employee behavior are directly related to trust and indirectly related to both commitment and loyalty. The study also shows that another dimension, promptness, is not significant for customers. In other words, customers do not give great importance to the amount of time that companies take to handle complaints as long as the complaints are resolved.

Choice, Loyalty, and Safety and the Construction of a Distinctly American Imagined Nationalism

Choice, Loyalty, and Safety and the Construction of a Distinctly American Imagined Nationalism

Six Secrets for Wooing, Wowing, and Winning Patients and Their Loyalty

Six Secrets for Wooing, Wowing, and Winning Patients and Their Loyalty

James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia

James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia

The role played by perceived usability, satisfaction and consumer trust on website loyalty

We performed a study to determine the influence that perceived usability has on the user's loyalty to websites that they visit. The results of the empirical analysis confirmed that the trust of the...

Ideals of Heroic Loyalty

Ideals of Heroic Loyalty

Gewerkschaftseliten nach 1945 – Kontinuität und Wandel der Führungsgruppen deutscher Gewerkschaften: Das wiederbelebte Interesse an den gewerkschaftlichen Führungsgruppen

The elite of the German trade unions is characterised by a high continuity regarding the social profile of the leadership, the recruiting patterns and the position of power inside the organisations. Despite the political integration of the trade unions this elite remains an outsider in a socio-cultural manner. Nowadays the unions are standing at a crossroads. The conditions have changed fundamentally: a tremendous loss of members, a dwindling political influence, a declining loyalty of the works councils and a diminishing ability to mobilise the rank and file. This process, caused by the erosion of the cooperative industrial relations in the course of the transformation of global capitalism, also has an effect on the leadership. One can notice an external recruitment of some chairmen, a rising importance of the works council chairmen of the big companies, a growing distance to the traditional ally, the socialdemocratic party, but the outcome stays open.

Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean – By Zeba A. Crook

Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean – By Zeba A. Crook

Treating "the Poor"--Classism or a Rigid Loyalty to Theory?: Comment.

Treating "the Poor"--Classism or a Rigid Loyalty to Theory?: Comment.

Confederates against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty (review)

Confederates against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty (review)

Gestapo V-Leute kommunistischer Herkunft – auch ein Strukturproblem der KPD?

The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) – along its line of unconditional loyalty to the Soviet Party – already in the early 1920s established an undercover so-called AM-Apparat (antimilitarist apparatus). This included an intelligence service to investigate political antagonists and at the same time fight (police) spies, „traitors“ and agent provocateurs. In this field, for years an often bloody competition between Communists and Nazis took place. No kind of intelligence, in particular fighting (police) spies, was new to the KPD at the moment of Nazitakeover in January 1933. The KPD, however, was then confronted with coinciding of executive public power and political enmity. Some members of the KPD, including several operatives of the AM-Apparat, became renegades in the service of the Gestapo. A number of those Communists taken into preventive custody by the Gestapo, under heavy torture became secret agents of the Gestapo. These former comrades harmed effectively the illegal fight of the KPD during the Nazi regime. The author, under the impression of missing systematic research in this field, started a regional analysis in the Rhein/Ruhr area. It was based in particular on the stock of approx. 65.000 Gestapo files in the Dusseldorf State Archive. In his first comprehensive report he estimates the number of former Communist Gestapo-agents to approx. 300 in the Rhein/Ruhr area.

“Divided Loyalties”: Iris Origo's War in Val d'Orcia

“Divided Loyalties”: Iris Origo's War in Val d'Orcia

How to build loyalty and retain workers

How to build loyalty and retain workers

Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty

Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty

Keeping the Faculty: Issues of Socialization, Justice, and Commitment to the Workplace

This study explores the effect that loyalty to one’s profession has on socialization to the organization, perceptions of fairness, and commitment. A one hundred and five item self-report survey included measures of socialization, commitment, distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice, and cosmopolitanism. Two hundred and thirty-five faculty from a public university participated in the study. Based on the results of the study, cosmopolitanism influences degree of socialization, perceptions of fairness, and commitment to the university – but the effect is conditional on the kind of socialization and the nature of organizational commitment. Implications for management and research are discussed.