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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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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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With the expiry of the Pharmaceutical Industry Investment Program (PIIP) in 2004, the Commission was asked to conduct an evaluation of the program’s rationale, effectiveness and efficiency. The study commenced in August 2002. The Commission found that this assistance scheme had significant...
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The study compares manufacturer prices in Australia and seven other countries for 150 pharmaceuticals listed on the …
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pharmaceuticals as a separate input into the production of health. Building upon existing published work, this paper uses an …
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This paper considers the job satisfaction of academics using a detailed dataset of over two thousand academics from ten … measure of job-satisfaction. Academics appear to be considering three separate sets of elements of their jobs, namely the … elements of job satisfaction on their intentions to leave the sector. …
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empirically tests the role of satisfaction in the routinization (this is one of the first empirical attempt of this kind). The …
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