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identity. The outcomes of the study suggest that virtual worlds and the social and business interactions they offer are tools … to build consumer identity. An exploratory qualitative technique was employed, using instant messaging with 34 immersive … another identity and operate a transfer, partial or total, from his real identity to the virtual one. The aim of the study is …
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identity. The outcomes of the study suggest that virtual worlds and the social and business interactions they offer are tools … to build consumer identity. An exploratory qualitative technique was employed, using instant messaging with 34 immersive … another identity and operate a transfer, partial or total, from his real identity to the virtual one. The aim of the study is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800029
We study the role of status in an experimental Principal-Agent game.Status is awarded to subjects based on either talent or luck. In each randomly matched principal-agent pair, the principal chooses the agent's status-contingent piece rate for a task in which talent matters for performance (an...
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the identity of citizens. That conceptions of citizenship – and, therefore, of citizenship education – inevitably vary … school curricula; I argue that with respect to individuals, matters of identity are not directly tied to citizenship or to … any other “collectivist” conception. Instead, these identity conditions are grounded in the actual concept of person, and …
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individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to a number of …
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particular identity constructs that need to be questioned. In fact, it will be argued that the way in which corporate governance … identity crises and crises of control. We will argue that a better understanding of the nature of capitalism could open new …
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of complex systems and improve their design. By refining the concept of the identity of a system from SS and VSA …
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In countries with high levels of ethnic diversity, “nation building” has been proposed as a mechanism for integration and conflict reduction. We find no evidence of lower intensity of national sentiment in more ethnically fragmented countries or in minority groups. National feelings in a...
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In economics in situations where there is uncertainty one has to attribute some attitude to handling this uncertainty to individuals. The original idea was to assume that “people do not make systematic mistakes” for which Muth coined the term “rational expectations”. This was replaced by...
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identity is based on the others’ recognition (both individuals and social groups), then indulging with thymòtic passions and … building up someone’s own identity are exactly the same process. Indeed, thymòtic passions are identitarian passions. This …
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