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by Hannes Zacher, Francesco Cangiano, Zhijun Chen, Shunhong Ji, Nai-Wen Chi, Malcolm Patterson, Hector Madrid, Zhenyu Liao, Fenghao Wang, Wu Liu, Chenwei Li, Cynthia Lee, Bingjie Yu, Emily Guohua Huang, Kan Ouyang, Laura Venz, Sandra Ohly, Neal Mark Ashkanasy, Daniya Kamran-Morley, David Lebel, Uta Bindl, Wanlu Li ...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Individuals’ behaviours at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To date, employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity, especially in interdependent and ... Read more

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New Developments in the Trilateral Relationship between the United States, Taiwan, and China

by Dean P. Chen, Chi Fang, Karl Ho, Wei-hao Huang, Chien-pin Li, Chia-Yu Lin, Kuan-Chia Joshua Lin, Lin (Kirin) Pu, Robert G. Sutter, Austin Horng-En Wang, Stan Hok-Wui Wong0, Charles K.S. Wu1, Dr. Yao-Yuan Yeh3 ...

Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections in January 2024. The incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a pyrrhic victory—with DPP keeping the presidential seat but losing the majority in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (Congress). The political status of Taiwan is one of the few, if not the ... Read more

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Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

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