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Subjective rationality. The search for visually perceivable principles of order in urban research until 1975
Brünenberg, Stefanie - In: sub\urban : Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung 10 (2022) 2/3, pp. 43-69
"spatial value number" reveals the incompatibility of rationality and aesthetics: the individual urban experience cannot be …
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Employee participation in organizational change: Investigating the effects of proactive vs. reactive implementation of downsizing in Swedish hospitals
Sverke, Magnus; Hellgren, Johnny; Näswall, Katharina; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 2, pp. 111-129
Whereas employee participation is generally conceived to facilitate implementation of organizational change, only limited research has investigated whether it may reduce the negative effects of downsizing. The present study compares two Swedish hospitals that implemented downsizing in different...
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Die Motivation von Arbeitnehmervertreterinnen und -vertretern zur Übernahme eines Aufsichtsratsmandats: Ein qualitativer Ansatz
Walther, Axel; Möltner, Hannah; Morner, Michèle - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 26 (2019) 1, pp. 63-88
employee-elected directors from German publicly-listed firms and indicate that motivation involves a wide range of subtypes …. Furthermore, we find that motivational subtypes vary in their individual relevance and form three distinct motivation profiles … factors of one's social context that influence the motivation to join supervisory boards. …
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Sicherheit, Strafe und positive Alternativen
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 61-72
Die Ökonomik der Kriminalität und die darauf aufbauende Ökonomik der Sicherheit konzentrieren sich vorwiegend auf Strafen als Mittel der Politik. Dies ist aus verschiedenen Gründen unklug. Zum einen gibt es eine Reihe von Bedingungen, unter denen Bestrafung nicht wirkt oder die Zahl der...
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Rational handelnde Investoren sind eine Mär: Kommentar
Schäfer, Dorothea - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 6, pp. 12
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Anchoring in economics: On Frey and Gallus on the aggregation of behavioural anomalies
Earl, Peter E. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-21, pp. 1-25
This paper examines the research area identified by Frey and Gallus (Aggregate Effects of Behavioral Anomalies: A New Research Area, 2014) and the relationship between it and the choices that economists make. It supports the Frey and Gallus view that, as a consequence of individuals employing...
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Agent-based modeling for decision making in economics under uncertainty
Vermeulen, Ben; Pyka, Andreas - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 10 (2016) 2016-6, pp. 1-33
Ever since the emergence of economics as a distinct scientific discipline, policy makers have turned to economic models to guide policy interventions. If policy makers seek to enhance growth of an open capitalist economy, they have to take into account, firstly, the uncertainties,...
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Investors' expertise, personality traits and susceptibility to behavioral biases in the decision making process
Rzeszutek, Marcin; Szyszka, Adam; Czerwonka, Monika - In: Contemporary Economics 9 (2015) 3, pp. 337-352
The aim of this paper is to investigate the degree of susceptibility to behavioral biases (the certainty effect, the sunk cost fallacy, and mental accounting) among people of various levels of expertise in market investments and to determine whether this susceptibility is correlated with certain...
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The coming breakthrough in risk research
Jaeger, Carlo - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 10 (2016) 2016-16, pp. 1-28
The paper proposes a novel way to handle the relation between decision theory and uncertainty in the context of policy design. Present risk governance is based primarily on two institutions - insurance markets and public risk governance - supported by a powerful theory: the expected utility...
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Selbstselektion statt Personalauswahl? Auslandsentsendungen in der deutschen chemischen Industrie
Minssen, Heiner; Schmidt, Susanne - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 3, pp. 228-248
ein wichtiger Erfolgsfaktor von Auslandsentsendungen, die Motivation der Expatriates, sichergestellt ist. Es ist deswegen …' motivation, an important factor for the success of international assignments, is assured. Therefore it is by no means irrational …
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