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Determinants of student satisfaction in higher education: an empirical study in Dubai
Parahoo, Sanjai K.; Tamim, Rana M. - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 4 (2012) 4, pp. 282-297
We develop and empirically validate a student satisfaction modelling technology-enabled university environments. We use focus groups at a university in Dubai and an intensive literature review to propose a theoretical model that involves different types of student interactions; perceptions of...
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Service quality, satisfaction, reputation and perceived value as the antecedents of behavioral intentions: A cross-national investigation in mobile communication services
TEKTAŞ, Öznur ÖZKAN - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 26 (2011) 301, pp. 35-58
countries, Turkey and Germany. The model examines the direct and mediating effects among reputation, satisfaction, service …, 230 from Turkey and 217 from Germany. Results reveal that service quality, satisfaction, perceived value and reputation …
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School Choice and School Quality in the US
Nechyba, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 4, pp. 33-38
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Reputation and the Control of Pollution
Caplan, Arthur - Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University - 2002
This paper investigates the effectiveness of reputation in inducing a polluting firm to selfregulate its emissions when …
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Social Reputation: a Mechanism for Flexible Self-Regulation of Multiagent Systems
Hahn, Christian; Fley, Bettina; Florian, Michael; … - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10 (2007) 1, pp. 2-2
electronic marketplaces. We argue that allowing self-interested agents to enable social reputation as a mechanism for flexible …-level concept of reputation that consists of three different types (image, social esteem, and prestige) and considers reputation as … a kind of \'symbolic capital\'. Reputation is regarded to be objectified as an observable property and to be …
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The Fixed Wage Puzzle: Why Profit Sharing Is So Hard to Implement
Jerger, Jürgen; Michaelis, Jochen - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2010
It is well known that profit sharing arrangements Pareto-dominate fixed wage contracts. Share agreements are (far) less than ubiquitous, however. This paper offers a solution of this "fixed wage puzzle“ by adopting a perspective of bounded rationality. We show that share arrangements that...
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The Fixed Wage Puzzle: Why Profit Sharing Is So Hard to Implement
Jerger, Jürgen; Michaelis, Jochen - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität … - 2010
It is well known that profit sharing arrangements Pareto-dominate fixed wage contracts. Share agreements are (far) less than ubiquitous, however. This paper offers a solution of this ”fixed wage puzzle“ by adopting a perspective of bounded rationality. We show that share arrangements that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455809
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You are what you can access: Sharing and collaborative consumption online
Belk, Russell - In: Journal of Business Research 67 (2014) 8, pp. 1595-1600
Sharing is a phenomenon as old as humankind, while collaborative consumption and the “sharing economy” are phenomena born of the Internet age. This paper compares sharing and collaborative consumption and finds that both are growing in popularity today. Examples are given and an assessment...
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Internet Governance 2.0.1.4: The internet balkanization fragmentation
Alves, Sérgio - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
The text addresses some of the definitions and origins of the term "Internet Balkanization." Drawing upon U.S. constitutional law and interstate commerce regulations, it argues that the term also carries strong connotations on the realms of jurisdiction and commerce. The text adds examples of...
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Empirical analysis of customer motives in the shareconomy: a cross-sectoral comparison
Balck, Birte; Cracau, Daniel - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2015
We present the results of an empirical study on German customers' motives to participate in the shareconomy. We focus on four different industries with two companies each: accommodation renting (Airbnb vs. Couchsurfing), car sharing (DriveNow vs. tamyca), commodities (Leihdirwas vs. WHY own it)...
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