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Uses and Misuses of Statistics
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2012
Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2012 as part of the 150th Birth Aniversary Celebrations of Mahanama Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya].
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Entrepreneurship Training, Risk Aversion and Other Personality Traits: Evidence from a Random Experiment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To address selection issues, we use novel data from...
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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count
Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...
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The interface between personality psychology and education economics
Pera, Aurel - In: Economics, management and financial markets 9 (2014) 1, pp. 160-165
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Broadening the application of hysteresis in economics : institutions, policy lock-in, psychology, identity, and ideas
Palley, Thomas I. - 2023
This paper argues for broadening the application of hysteresis to institutions, policy lockin, psychology, identity …
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The role of managers in organizations : psychological aspects
Tovmasyan, Gayane - In: Business ethics and leadership : BEL 1 (2017) 3, pp. 20-26
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An evolving landscape of the psychology of judgment and decision-making : a bibliometric analysis
Ngamake, Sakkaphat T.; Raveepatarakul, Jirapattara; … - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 14 (2024) 8, pp. 1-21
directions of the field. Previous bibliometric studies on the psychology of JDM have primarily analyzed published documents … documents with broad search terms (i.e., "judgment*" or "decision mak*") within the purview of the psychology subject area …
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Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business, Computing, and Big Data: Connections
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing Keung - 2018
This paper provides a review of some connecting literature in Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business …
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The Green Bean Coffee House: An exploration of the specialty coffee Industry and sustainable business practices
Hunt, Evan - 2009
, as well as enables the buyer and producer, as business partners, to set the price and production standards.The coffee … house itself is the perfect medium for exploring the principles and benefits of sustainable business. Not only because of … information gather from primary and secondary sources I have formulated a fully developed “sustainable” business model that goes …
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Family-Owned Businesses: Determinants of Business Success and Profitability
Wallace, Jeffrey S. - 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business … Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home …
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