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Design for recycling has been promoted by companies and governments around the world as one of the most important practices for achieving sustainability. The success or failure of such a practice, however, depends heavily on the financial incentives for firms to design products with more...
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communication and, consequently, to the emergence of different patterns of persistent cooperation and competition. In predictably …
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aim is to report the obstacles that participants in the survey felt were the most critical ones affecting competition in …
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participation rates, fuel costs, market size, a rate cap and switch to competition for 16 states and the District of Columbia. We … competition makes the market more efficient by lowering the markup of retail prices over wholesale costs. The effects of a …
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Competition among firms has been suggested to reflect the ruthless logic of Darwinian selection: a free market is a … leads to a paradox. We show that the application of Darwinian selection to competition among firms (as opposed to among … individual self-interest. We apply an alternative evolutionary model of economic competition, multi-level selection (MLS) theory …
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Players often engage in high-profile public communications to demonstrate their confidence in winning before they carry out actual competitive activities. We investigate players’ incentives to engage in such pre-contest communication. Our key assumption is that a player suffers a cost when he...
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There has been much recent literature about sex differences in competition, mostly noting that women are innately less … are domain specific. We conducted a 2 (sex)×4 (domain) experiment with 434 participants examining competition decisions …, familiarity with the domain, and performance. We find no overall sex differences in rates of competition when collapsing across …
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effects of different pay schemes (competition, fixed pay and piece rate) on counterproductive behaviour. On average … significantly higher under competition than under the two other pay schemes. …
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We study gender differences in exiting competitive environments by exploiting the “naturalistic experiment” of a TV game show where participants were self-selected and there were no gender-specific constraints or discrimination. In multiple rounds, contestants answer general knowledge...
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” (unscrupulous clients threatening to smear a monitor's reputation unless bribed). I highlight the crucial roles of competition among …
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