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The purpose of this article is to propose a typology of the economic behaviour of French industrial companies in 1993 … behaviour and the competitive forces ( M. Porter, 1986 ) affecting these companies is then examined on the basis of a sub-set of …
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identify specific types of economic behaviour and to relate them to companies' investment, and particularly intangible …
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. But the dimension of the Combrain behaviour is wide&cover the whole world with Internet. Even if they are a menace, it …
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We explore whether natural human competitiveness can be exploited to stimulate charitable giving in a controlled laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential ``dictator game.'' Without disclosing the actual amounts given and kept, in each period players are publicly...
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motivated? A standard result in economics is that firms offer autonomous jobs to promote worker motivation. But surprisingly … motivates them. Does autonomy in fact trigger motivation? I argue in this study that motivation may trigger autonomy, and thus … motivation, and that motivated workers have a lower cost of processing information than unmotivated ones. While motivated workers …
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We apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the concept of utility and then go on to a new model where individual’s behavior is aimed at reaching optimal level of arousal of neural system and optimal level of domination in social ranking.
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Given the importance of green entrepreneurs in the transition towards a truly sustainable society, this paper proposes frameworks for investigating the motives of entrepreneurs who set up green businesses. Different perceptions of 'green' are explored and although the paper focuses particularly...
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What modern game theorists describe as 'fictitious play' is not the learning process George W. Brown defined in his 1951 paper. His original version differs in a subtle detail, namely the order of belief updating. In this note we revive Brown's original fictitious play process and demonstrate...
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Fictitious play is the classical myopic learning process, and games with strategic complementarities are an important class of games including many economic applications. Knowledge about convergence properties of fictitious play in this class of games is scarce, however. Beyond dominance...
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