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Religious origins of democracies and dictatorships
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013
In this paper, I argue that religion matters for the emergence of democracies and dictatorships. Religion is defined as a stochastically set demand for public goods. Different types of religious collectives reflect different tradeoffs between centralized resource distribution and market rewards....
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Political support in hard times: Do people care about national welfare?
Friedrichsen, Jana; Zahn, Philipp - 2013
During the Great Recession mass demonstrations indicated weakened political support in Europe. We show that growing dissatisfaction often reflects poor economic conditions and unemployment is particularly important. Using individual level data for 16 Western European countries for 1976-2010, we...
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Linking organizational justice with organization citizenship behaviors: Collectivism as moderator
Shahzad, Asif; Siddiqui, Muhammad Ayub; Zakaria, Muhammad - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 8 (2014) 3, pp. 900-913
collectivism (COLL) as moderating variable in Pakistan. Survey based data is collected using questionnaire from 350 respondents of … six public sector universities in Pakistan. The Cohen model was used for testing the moderating effect of collectivism …. Empirical results show significant positive link between organizational justice and OCB, and that collectivism moderates …
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Cultural Nationalism: The Last Resort of Scoundrels
Jones, Eric - 2006
This is the text of the Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture as it was delivered on Oct. 4, 2006.
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Impact of CSR on firm performance: The moderating role of family ownership in individualistic & collectivistic countries
Singh, Abhishek Omprakash - 2024
influenced by cultural dimensions of collectivism and individualism. The study thereby incorporates views from both the …
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Political Support in Hard Times: Do People Care about National Welfare?
Friedrichsen, Jana; Zahn, Philipp - 2012
During the Great Recession mass demonstrations indicated weakened political support in Europe. We show that growing dissatisfaction reflects poor economic conditions; unemployment is particularly important. Using individual level data for 16 Western European countries for 1976-2010, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441814
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Agency equilibrium
Newton, Jonathan - In: Games 10 (2019) 1, pp. 1-15
Agency may be exercised by different entities (e.g., individuals, firms, households). A given individual can form part of multiple agents (e.g., he may belong to a firm and a household). The set of agents that act in a given situation might not be common knowledge. We adapt the standard model of...
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Hegemonic conceptualizations of empowerment in entrepreneurship and their suitability for collective contexts
Wood, Bronwyn P.; Ng, Poh Yen; Bastian, Bettina Lynda - In: Administrative Sciences 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17
The relationship between empowerment and entrepreneurship in collective societies is, in our view, insufficiently examined. Accepted definitions of empowerment and the assumptions underlying programs and research designs based on them result in outcomes that self-fulfil and, as a result,...
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The sharing economy and the antecedents of resource sharing intentions: Evidence from a developing country
Ratilla, Mark; Dey, Sandeep Kumar; Chovancová, Miloslava - In: Cogent Business & Management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-25
work recognizes the attributions of culture to behavior as evidenced by the significant positive effect of collectivism …
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Dishonesty as a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma
Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2022
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
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