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Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non- profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...
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This article aims to investigate some aspects of the social process related to water resources management and gender … relations. Given that gender and water management are interrelated issues exposed to a growing attention at the international … reach an improved governance and planning in the field of sustainable water management. Therefore, to investigate gender …
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different dependent variables to focus on the impact of age, gender and children we use a large micro data set covering data …
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The Community Inclusion model described in this paper characterizes the stages through which a diverse group of people … the assessment of a community’s current stage of inclusion, and determining the interventions needed to address lack of … inclusion. Examples from Sweden (EU) and the United States (USA) will be used to demonstrate how the model works. Particular …
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awareness and knowledge, managing ethical diversity over cross-country business transactions ends up to be a major challenge for …
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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the … indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned … about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha …
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This paper is part of a larger dissertation project named: A Production of Diversity: Appearances, Ideas, Interests …, I have attempted to describe, understand and analyse a process of diversity production at a large manufacturing company … studying “diversity in organizations”. A starting-point for my discussion here is an assumption that researchers, by exploring …
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Theories on diversity and diversity management within the field of Organisation Studies started to develop in the 80s …, mainly under the influence of managerial reports pointing towards the increasing diversity of the future workforce. The … purpose of this paper is to 1) review the existing studies on diversity identifying their main purposes, 2) identify the …
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This paper summarises research into localised urban systems which accounts for variations in styles of diversity within … the need to adapt the model to account also for the process of diversity. This third phase combines ethnography with …
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economic and social behavior. In a series of experiments with approximately 200 Midwestern students as our subjects, we found …-viewing habits, dress type preferences, birth order, body type, socio-economic status and gender. The importance of the source of …
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