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Zum zeitlichen Umfang ehrenamtlichen Engagements in Sportvereinen : sozioökonomische Modellbildung und empirische Prüfung
Flatau, Jens; Emrich, Eike; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2012
Umfang ehrenamtlichen Engagements haben. -- Ehrenamt ; Motive ; Fußballvereine ; Onlinebefragung …Auf der Basis eines mittels einer Onlinebefragung erhobenen Datensatzes wird auf der Basis der haushalts- bzw … Fußballvereinen geleisteten Arbeit von der Art der zugrundeliegenden Motive abhängig ist. Dabei wird auch auf Motiv …
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What's important for you in life? A general and pluralistic model of economic agents’ motivation
Zibell, Laurent - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 503-515
This article refines the theory of economic agents’ motivations beyond the alternative between egoistic self-interest and a generic altruism. It addresses the potential weakness of ‘altruism’ theories that the number of ‘others’ claiming empathy and care is potentially infinite. It...
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Explanation of the donor decision-making process in the Czech Republic through a combination of influences of individual motives
Hladká, Marie; Hyánek, Vladimír - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 11 (2016) 1, pp. 23-37
Motivation represents a foundation corestone on which analyses in a number of the humanities and social sciences are built. For a long time, economists have seen motivation as connected with the act of giving, trying to interpret it in the context of the neoclassical economics assumptions. On...
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452045
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422534
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413959
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Time is Money : A Natural Field Experiment on How a Non-Monetary Timely Feedback System Motivates Volunteers
Li, Xiaoye - 2013
A natural field experiment is designed to explore the crowding effects of a timely feedback system on voluntary contributions according to their original dominant motivation (intrinsic/extrinsic). This paper finds crowding-in effect of a one-way timely feedback for both types of volunteers....
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Gender differences in response to contingent rewards: Evidence from a natural experiment of junior tennis
Anbarci, Nejat; Arin, K. Peren; Lee, Jungmin - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 53 (2014) C, pp. 131-137
We investigate gender differences in responding to contingent rewards by exploiting a natural experiment in junior tennis tournaments in Florida where the ranking point system was revised to induce more players to play doubles. The new point system increased the points earned from wins in...
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A Theory of Choice under Internal Conflict
Arlegi, Ritxar; Teschl, Miriam - Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra - 2012
In this paper we argue, inspired by some psychological literature, that choices are the outcome of the interplay of different, potentially conflicting motivations. We propose an axiomatic approach with two motivations, which we assume to be single-peaked over a certain given dimension. We first...
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Moral hypocrisy : self-deception or impression management? ; conference paper
Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Walkowitz, Gari - 2013
In four studies (S1-S4; N = 320) we investigated whether moral hypocrisy (MH) is motivated by conscious impression management concerns or whether it is self-deceptive. In a dictator game, MH occurred both within participants (saying one thing, doing another; S1) and between participants (doing...
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