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The Epistemic‐Ontic Circular Causation and Continuity Model of Socio‐scientific Reality The Knowledge Premiss
Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 1, pp. 3-18
Undertakes an epistemological formulation of ethico‐economics. This formulation challenges the neo‐classical and macroeconomic foundations of mainstream economics and then presents the rigorously analytical depths of ethico‐economics. Traces the developments, the praxis of the rational...
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Entrepreneurial Action as Metaphorical Process and its Metaphorics
Baryshev, Alexey A. - In: International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and … 9 (2017) 1, pp. 24-39
management and people`s wellbeing, production of gadget for precarious wants. These items inspire the study of axiological bases …. The metaphors of appropriateness, utility and wellbeing were proposed for the different periods of the development of …
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Web Service Usability Analysis Based on User Preferences
Fabisiak, Luiza - In: Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) 30 (2018) 4, pp. 1-13
This article attempts to closely examine the users' preferences in the author's method of assessing the usability of websites. In particular, the issues bring a closer evaluation of websites by users. It sets rules for the accuracy of users' preferences on the basis of the scoring method. In the...
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A Simple Metric for Gauging Risk Aversion
Eisenhauer, Joseph G. - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 4 (2010) 2
that a quantitative measure of large-scale risk aversion can be constructed with elementary mathematics, facilitating the …
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A Utility-Based Diffusion Model Applied to the Digital Camera Case
Orbach, Yair; Fruchter, Gila E. - In: Review of Marketing Science 8 (2010) 1
product lifecycle, pre-launch. Market growth is driven by product's utility increase due to technology evolution, while firms … utility increase and market growth makes the problem inherently dynamic. To find the dependency of utility increase on market … product's utility, we use data collected by a conjoint study. The ability to collect and interpret data about both demand and …
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The use of usefulness: An examination of the user needs approach to the financial reporting conceptual framework
McCartney, Sean - In: Journal of Applied Accounting Research 7 (2004) 2, pp. 52-79
The paper analyses the concept of ‘user needs’, which has been widely adopted by official bodies as the basis of a conceptual framework for financial reporting, including the ASB in the UK, following the lead of the FASB in the US. The user needs approach is essentially deductive: if users...
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Housing preferences for affordable social housing projects in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Delgado, Alina; De Troyer, Frank - In: International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 10 (2017) 1, pp. 112-139
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the principles of a conceptual model to help developers and housing users achieve their expectations regarding quality, affordability and reasonable profits. Based on the identification of housing user’s preferences extracted from the survey,...
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Aggregation with a mix of indivisible and continuous labor supply decisions
Vasilev, Aleksandar - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 12, pp. 1507-1512
. Design/methodology/approach The authors show how lotteries as in Rogerson (1988) can again be used to convexify consumption … aggregate utility function above in a sophisticated real-business-cycle model to investigate the effect of those preferences for …
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Wayfinding strategies guide mobile commerce in sharing economy development
Ku, Edward C.S.; Lian, Jiunn-Woei; Liu, Ling-Ling - In: International Journal of Tourism Cities 8 (2022) 3, pp. 741-760
Purpose The purpose of this study is to integrate wayfinding strategies and open innovation to examine the factors of mobile application (M-App) design. Design/methodology/approach The study formulated an M-App model from the wayfinding sense-making and open innovation perspective. Samples were...
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Welfare, preferences and the reconstruction of desires
Holler, Manfred Joseph - In: International Journal of Social Economics 42 (2015) 5, pp. 447-458
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a model that relates the desire for justice with welfare. Design/methodology/approach – The point of departure, elaborated in the first part of the paper, is the observation that we have no sense-organs for experiencing welfare and the...
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