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Impulsive consumption and reflexive thought: Nudging ethical consumer behavior
Lades, Leonhard K. - 2012
The paper deals with impulsive consumption and highlights the roles that cognitive and motivational aspects of reflexive thought (namely self-control and self-image motives, respectively) play in intertemporal decisions. While self-control inhibits individuals from consuming impulsively,...
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The missing link between research and reality: The significance of the relationship between retail format and organic food consumption
Baum, Chad M. - 2013
The impact that the retail format has on the level of individual motivation tends to be overlooked in discussions of … separately. Hence, the dominant research paradigm has difficulty accounting for the differences in energy and motivation across … that utilize a limited form of the relationship between individual and retail format to explain the level of motivation. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369317
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(Post-)materialist attitudes and the mix of capital and labour taxation
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2008
Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social sciences, for the mix of capital and labour taxation chosen by a society. Following political scientist Inglehart, we define the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance...
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Culture and tax structures
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2012
We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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Information provision to consumers as an instrument of environmental regulation
Andersen, Laura Mørch - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503127
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The entrepreneurial culture: guiding principles of the self-employed
Noseleit, Florian - 2008
What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self-employed rate values higher that aim...
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The intrinsic value of decision rights
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2014
Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal-at least partly-from an assumed positive intrinsic...
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The intrinsic value of decision rights
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2013
Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal - at least partly - from an assumed positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316882
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Mature and emerging organic markets: Modelling consumer attitude and behaviour with Partial Least Square Approach
von Meyer-Höfer, Marie; von der Wense, Vera; Padilla … - 2013
Although the organic food sector has been the subject of research for around 20 years, little is known about consumer behaviour when comparing developed and emerging organic food markets using causal research models. Thus, by developing a behavioural model based on the Theory of Planned...
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The determinants of consumer behaviour of students from Brno when purchasing organic food
Švecová, Jana; Odehnalová, Pavla - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 19 (2019) 1, pp. 49-64
The subject of this paper is the analysis of consumer behaviour in the organic market, focused on the behavior of students from Brno. Our study brings information which can potentially be used for further research and will also be useful for organizations with a practical interest in the...
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