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Intermediation by heterogeneous oligopolists
Morasch, Karl - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2010
In his book on 'Market Microstructure' Spulber presented some strange results with respect to the impact of the substitutability parameter in an intermediation model with differentiated products and inputs. Intuitively, effects in the product and the input market should be similar: if firms...
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Cultural constraints on rising income inequality: A U.S.–Japan comparison
Sakamoto, Arthur; Woo, Hyeyoung; Takei, Isao; Murase, Yoichi - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 10 (2012) 4, pp. 565-581
Prior research has identified fundamental cultural and normative concepts—including wa, enryo, giri, and amae—that are typically argued to be integral to Japanese society. We advance this line of research by discussing how these traditional cultural concepts may influence labor market...
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Is Your Banker Leaking Your Personal Information? The Roles of Ethics and Individual-Level Cultural Characteristics in Predicting Organizational Computer Abuse
Lowry, Paul; Posey, Clay; Roberts, Tom; Bennett, Rebecca - In: Journal of Business Ethics 121 (2014) 3, pp. 385-401
Computer abuse (CA) by employees is a critical concern for managers. Misuse of an organization’s information assets leads to costly damage to an organization’s reputation, decreases in sales, and impositions of fines. We use this opportunity to introduce and expand the theoretic framework...
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Societal-Level Versus Individual-Level Predictions of Ethical Behavior: A 48-Society Study of Collectivism and Individualism
Ralston, David; Egri, Carolyn; Furrer, Olivier; Kuo, … - In: Journal of Business Ethics 122 (2014) 2, pp. 283-306
-level dimensions of collectivism and individualism values for predicting ethical behaviors of business professionals. Our values …
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Are modern philosophical accounts of well-being excessively ‘individualistic’?
Qizilbash, Mozaffar - In: International Review of Economics 61 (2014) 2, pp. 173-189
‘individualism’? I suggest that this question can be answered by considering two objections to modern views of welfare: (1) that they …
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Self-Related and Other-Related Pathways to Subjective Well-Being in Japan and the United States
Novin, Sheida; Tso, Ivy; Konrath, Sara - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 15 (2014) 5, pp. 995-1014
Cross-cultural comparisons demonstrate that subjective well-being (SWB) is rated lower among East Asian than Western individuals. Regardless of such cultural differences, however, factors that predict SWB among people from various cultures may be similar. In the current study we demonstrate the...
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The Pursuit of Happiness in China: Individualism, Collectivism, and Subjective Well-Being During China’s Economic and Social Transformation
Steele, Liza; Lynch, Scott - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 441-451
This paper examines the consequences of China’s dramatic socioeconomic and political transformations for individual subjective well-being (SWB) from 1990 to 2007. Although many still consider China to be a collectivist country, and some scholars have argued that collectivist factors would be...
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Living in the Garden of Eden: Mineral Resources Foster Individualism
Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2012
United States. We refer to "individualism" as the set of values opposed to public intervention in income allocation and …
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Vulnerabili e appassionati. Sui fondamenti antropologici della scienza economica
Bellanca, Nicolò - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2014
passion-infused intimate relations and economic theory through a reconsideration of the anthropological conception of the …
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Entrepreneurial orientation, executives individualism and Firm Performance: The moderating role of executives individualism
Yucel, Ilhami - In: Far East Journal of Psychology and Business 5 No 3 Paper 3 December (2011) 3, pp. 63-77
its relationship with performance is more complex. This study examines how executive individualism impact the relationship … between EO and firm performance within a sample of 218 US small and medium-sized firm (an SME). Executives individualism is … individualism plays a moderating role in this relationship. The results strongly support firms with an EO that have executives with …
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