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values, the researchers interviewed Chinese employers and employees from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Brunei. The …
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Much as in the business world, external motivation can have perverse results when applied in academic settings …
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starve to death; it evolves due directly to human motivation not to be bottom among acquaintances; it benefits all …
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motivation for this subject. In general, two expressions for motivation are effort and persistence, and choice of tasks. We take … would choose to study economic topics in the future. In total, we use five measures for these two expressions of motivation …. The experiments appear to support both expressions of motivation in the sense that we find a positive and significant …
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One commonly-used strategy in charitable fundraising is sharing names and contact information of donors between organizations, even those whose missions are unrelated. The efficacy of this practice hinges on the existence of “giving types,” that is, a positive correlation at the individual...
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Over 25% of the US population volunteers. Clary et al. (1998) devised a survey that identifies a volunteer’s primary motive for volunteering. We investigate the effect of tailoring the communications that volunteers receive from their organizations (e.g., printed newsletters, update emails) to...
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undermining the intrinsic motivation needed for effective performance in such settings. To solve this puzzle, we build on theories … activation of intrinsic and identified forms of motivation, and simultaneously independent and interdependent self … our propositions can enrich our understanding of motivation in other settings, where creativity and/or coordination …
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What motivates people in rural villages to share? We first elicit a baseline level of sharing using a standard, anonymous dictator game. Then using variants of the dictator game that allow for either revealing the dictator's identity or allowing the dictator to choose the recipient, we attribute...
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