The Trafford Hall Making Things Happen Programme is an innovative and practical‘capacity building’ programme of residential training, linked to follow-up small grants, forsocial housing tenants in England and Wales. It aims to support community volunteers to beinvolved in improving...

Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, welchen Einflussmotivationale Faktoren auf die Innovationsbereitschaft von Mitarbeitern in Unternehmenhaben. Das Motivationssystem, das sich in Transaktions- und Transformationsmechanismenuntergliedern lässt, wird dabei als Aktivator...

Extrinsic motivations like intellectual property protections and fiscalincentives continue to occupy the centre stage in debates on innovationpolicies. Joseph Schumpeter had, however, argued that the motive toaccumulate private property can only explain part of innovative activities. Inhis view,...

This paper examines student withdrawals associated with the online BA Enterprise programmeinitiative designed by E-College Wales (part of the University of Glamorgan). This aims to helpimprove the entrepreneurial capacity of Wales. The increase of e-learning programmes on offerfrom academia and...

A very prominent example of a corporate weblog is thedevelopment documentation of Microsoft’s new software“Microsoft-Longhorn”, recently launched as “Vista”. TheMicrosoft-Longhorn Blogosphere (MLB) is interesting for tworeasons: Firstly, in contrast to other blogospheres within...

We conduct a large-scale …eld experiment with 2,440 subjects in whichwe exogenously vary the price of contributing to the closest empiricalcounterpart of an in…nitely large public good, climate change mitigation.We …nd that the price e¤ect is robust and negative, but quantitativelyweak, with...