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This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...
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Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less...
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range of demographic, human capital and job characteristics, as well as personal preferences and values. These differences … the gender pay gap as well as entrepreneurship research on women's entrepreneurship to the novel context of social …
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We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances … commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990 …) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …
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that choosing a manager who has a preference to spend resources for social causes can increase employee motivation. In turn …, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation. …
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-profit sector earn lower wages than their colleagues. -- Sector choice ; intrinsic motivation ; non-profit …
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We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...
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couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm … inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship. …
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Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of … entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent …
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entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate … carefully to different groups. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; motivation ; occupational choice …
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