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The Green Entrepreneur: Visionary, Maverick or Opportunist?

Taylor, David W.; Walley, Liz E. E. - EconWPA - 2003

entrepreneurship (1998). The terms 'ethical maverick', 'ad hoc environpreneur', 'visionary champion' and 'innovative opportunist' are … ways to foster green entrepreneurship. …

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Does Competition Affect Giving? An Experimental Study

Duffy, John; Kornienko, Tatiana - EconWPA - 2005

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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Does Motivation Trigger Autonomy, or Vice Versa?

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

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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Incentives, Monitoring, and Motivation

Rauh, Michael T.; Seccia, Giulio - EconWPA - 2005

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Arousal, rank and utility

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2004

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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Geneses of labour market turnover: Job search and entrepreneurial aspirations on-the-job

Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” side-by-side and report three main findings: First, neither entrepreneurial...

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Entrepreneurial Efficiency: Theory

Takii, Katsuya - EconWPA - 2004

.e., their prediction ability), and derives an aggregate production function as a result of entrepreneurship. An increase in … affects the total factor productivity (TFP) of an economy, the model can explain how entrepreneurship influences TFP. …

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Entrepreneurial Efficiency: An Empirical Framework and Evidence

Takii, Katsuya - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines a particular aspect of entrepreneurship, namely firms' activities in adapting to idiosyncratic …

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INOVATIONS - ENTREPRENEURSHIP - CREDIT in the Theory of J.A. Schumpeter

Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005

Short explanation of Schumpeter's concepts of dynamics, innovations and entrepreneurship. It is argued, that …

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New Trade Theory Takes Over Monetary Theory

Gani, M - EconWPA - 2004

Prevailing trade theory is a neglected stepchild of economics. Micro rejects the sole reason for trade’s occurrence. It declares zero profit in equilibrium. Monetary theory and macroeconomics dismiss concerns of trade financing. They assert that money has nothing to do with traded output, but...

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