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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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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 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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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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Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...
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Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
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Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
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environmentally important industry such as recycling, then the surprising implication for public policy is that measures to control or …
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