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Exploration of Consumers’ Behaviours Connected with Product Reuse

Nalewajek, Monika; Macik, Radoslaw - ToKnowPress

what product categories are reused more frequently and why. Also paper deals with consumer motivations, knowledge and … important to some users, but only as additional motivations. Observation leads to conclusion, that most often reasons to engage …

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Ambitious entrepreneurship: Antecedents and consequences

HERMANS, Julie; VANDERSTRAETEN, Johanna; DEJARDIN, Marcus; … - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2012

In the recent literature on entrepreneurship there is a growing body of knowledge that recognizes that some entrepreneurs have higher ambitions than others and that these entrepreneurial ambitions are an important antecedent of actual firm success. Consequently, it is not surprising that...

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ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATION IN A LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRY: PUSH FACTORS AND PULL FACTORS AMONG MSEs IN UGANDA

EIJDENBERG, EMIEL L.; MASUREL, ENNO - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 21 (2013) 01, pp. 19-43

The objective of this study is to explore entrepreneurial motivation in a least developed country (LDC), which can be divided into push factors and pull factors, without a priori separation between those which are necessity-driven and those which are opportunity-driven. This study shows that the...

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Where do preferences come from?

Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - In: International Journal of Game Theory 42 (2013) 3, pp. 613-637

Rational choice theory analyzes how an agent can rationally act, given his or her preferences, but says little about where those preferences come from. Preferences are usually assumed to be fixed and exogenously given. Building on related work on reasons and rational choice (Dietrich and List,...

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Motivations to work off-farm among U.S. farm women

Bharadwaj, Latika; Findeis, Jill L.; Chintawar, Sachin - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 45 (2013) C, pp. 71-77

, and having an independent source of income. But very few studies have analyzed factors affecting motivations, and impacts … of these motivations on individual behavior, e.g., the decision to engage in off-farm employment. This paper examines … factors affecting motivations for off-farm work among farm women in the U.S., estimating ordered probit models corrected for …

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CAN ASSET REVALUATION BE MANIPULATIVE? - A CASE STUDY

Adina, Crisan Sorana - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 1198-1209

and investors' expectations. In the same time, motivations behind asset revaluation decisions are diverse, being … research aims to provide a full picture of the motivations behind the revaluation decision and point to the manipulation …

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Ambitious entrepreneurship: antecedents and consequences

Hermans, Julie; Dejardin, Marcus; Vanderstraeten, Johanna; … - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 2012

In the recent literature on entrepreneurship, a growing body of knowledge recognizes that some entrepreneurs have higher ambitions than others and that these entrepreneurial ambitions are an important antecedent of actual firm success. Consequently, it is not surprising that ambitious...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010587904

System-synergistic innovation management as a key factor of national and corporate competitive success

Prudskiy, Vladimir - In: Economy of region 1 (2010) 3, pp. 228-234

This article is devoted to principal basis of model of systematic and synergetic approach to management of innovations in condition of transition to neoindustrial economics. This approach will be instead of complex and fragmentary approach of industrial management. The realization of such model...

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INDUSTRIALIZATION: AN ITINERARY RUINED BY EXTRAECONOMIC FACTORS. CASE STUDY: THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY

Dan, POPESCU - In: Revista Economica 61.2 (2012) 2, pp. 7-25

How did the evolution of Romanian industry develop in the years after 1944 and until 1989? How about afterwards, during the transition from a socialist economy of Eastern European type to a generically defined market economy, when it failed to achieve socially desirable results, namely during...

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Perspective on Beneficiaries Experiences of Participation in Community-Based Agriculture and Rural Development Program in Guba, Northern Nigeria

Ahmadu, Sule; Ahmad, Nobaya; Hamsan, Hanina H. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and rural Development 2 (2012) 1, pp. 39-45

The objective of this paper is to explore beneficiaries’ experiences on participation in the on-going International Fund for Agriculture Development/Community-based agriculture and rural development program (IFAD/CBARDP) among farmers in Guba community in Northern Nigeria. The paper...

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