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Social dialogue in micro and small companies
Voss, Eckhard; Maack, Wilke; Giaccone, Mario - Europäische Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- und … - 2014
Micro and small companies constitute the backbone of private business in Europe, accounting for nearly 99% of all enterprises, more than half of total employment in the private sector and an even greater proportion of new jobs. Despite their crucial place in the economy, there has been little...
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Accounting for Heterogeneity in Hedging Behavior: Comparing & Evaluating Grouping Methods
Pennings, Joost M.E.; Garcia, Philip; Irwin, Scott H. - 2011
Heterogeneity, i.e., the notion that individuals respond differently to economic stimuli, can have profound consequences for the interpretation of behavior and the formulation of agricultural policy. This paper compares and evaluates three grouping techniques that can be used to account for...
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Economic indicators as predictors of the number and fuel economy of purchased new vehicles
Sivak, M.; Schoettle, B. - 2009
This study examined the relationship between two economic indicators—the unemployment rate and the price of gasoline—and purchase decisions of new vehicle buyers. Two regression analyses were performed, one focusing on the number of vehiclespurchased and the other one on their fuel economy....
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Multiple selves and the meanings they give to consumptions
Bahl, Shalini - 2005
Researchers are divided with regard to how consumers' experience multiplicity in their self-concepts. One group argues that consumers need a unifying meta-narrative (e.g. Ahuvia 2005), other theorists believe fragmentation is normal (e.g., Firat and Venkatesh 1995). While multiple selves is an...
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Privacy concerns and personality traits influencing online behavior: A structural model.
Grams, Brian C. - 2005
induced emotional states typically measured by opinion polls. This study investigated the relationship of personality …
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A role theory approach to understanding transformational and transactional leadership behaviors: The role of interpretations of organizational context
Shivers, Sheryl L - 1999
transformational or transactional leader behaviors. Furthermore, it is hypothesized that personality factors influence response …
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Dynamic decision making and race games
De, Shipra - 2011
Frequent criticism in dynamic decision making research pertains to the overly complex nature of the decision tasks used in experimentation. To address such concerns we study dynamic decision making with respect to the simple race game Hog, which has a computable optimal decision strategy. In the...
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Explaining Variation in Farm and Farm Business Performance in Respect to Farmer Segmentation Analysis
Wilson, Paul; Harper, Nicholas; Darling, Richard - 2011
Results from a pilot application of Defra’s segmentation model applied to the Farm Business Survey for England are presented. Interviews with 750 FBS co-operators during 2010, using a discursive approach, classified co-operators into one of five segmentation groups: Custodians (14.0%);...
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Retail shopping behaviour: a comparison of Australian and Canadian shopping time
Yacyshyn, Alison; Vitartas, Peter - 2010
process provides marketers with an understanding of consumer behaviour decisions. The allocation of time to shopping is also … also been shown to affect shopping behaviour. This paper investigates the differences in retail shopping time between the … two countries with a focus on the impact of travel time and time pressure on shopping behaviour. Demographic and personal …
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BNAS: Towards a Business Nework ABM System
Young, Louise - 2011
nature and impact of different factors on structure, behaviour and performance that are beyond traditional closed …
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