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Exploring Firm Emergence : Initially Conditioned or Actively Created?

Tornikoski, Erno T.; Puhakka, Vesa - 2013

Previous research has established a connection between initial conditions and new firm performance. Research on the gestation activities of nascent entrepreneurs, on the other hand, has demonstrated the potential importance of active behaviours on firm emergence. Since no research has addressed...

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What Motivates Consumers to Produce Online Reviews? Solidarity, Status, and the Soapbox Effect

McQuarrie, Edward F.; McIntyre, Shelby H.; Shanmugam, Ravi - 2013

tangible compensation (e.g., on Yelp.com). We examine three possibilities for consumers’ motivation to produce reviews: that … motivation. Each of these makes a different prediction about the effects of positive feedback. Using three longitudinal datasets …

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Adhd-Like Behavior and Entrepreneurial Intentions

Verheul, I.; Block, Jorn H.; Burmeister-Lamp, Katrin; … - 2013

Little is known about the relation between validated psychiatric symptoms scores and the entrepreneurial decision. Building on the Person-Environment (P-E) fit literature and using data of over 10,000 students, we test whether individuals with higher levels of attention deficit and hyperactivity...

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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat; Meier, Stephan - 2011

This paper examines image motivation - the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others - as a driver in prosocial … behavior due to crowding out of image motivation. By definition, image depends on one's behavior being visible to other people …. Using this unique property we show that image is indeed an important part of the motivation to behave prosocially. Moreover …

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Alliance Healthcare Network : Using a Balanced Scorecard to Motivate Change

Sergeant, Anne M. A.; Ratliff-Miller, Paulette A. - 2012

consolidated IT, 3) to foster an understanding of incentives and motivation for different types of individuals, and 4) to expose …

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Can Tailored Communications Motivate Environmental Volunteers? A Natural Field Experiment

Al-Ubaydli, Omar; Lee, Min Sok - 2013

Volunteering is a significant component of economic activity, especially for environmental organizations. Environmental organizations that rely on volunteers communicate with them using a variety of media, such as newsletters. This is a field experiment investigating whether tailoring the...

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Spirituality and Entrepreneurs : Analysis of Entrepreneurial Motivation

Putu Nursiani, Ni; Fanggidae, Rolland; Fanggidae, Ronald P.C - 2019

Objective - Cultural change in the economy has given rise to what might be called 'spiritual entrepreneurship'. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between entrepreneurship and spirituality, even though these two terms are somewhat contradictory.Methodology/Technique - The...

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Entrepreneurs With Disabilities in Bangladesh : An Exploratory Study on Their Entrepreneurial Motivation and Challenges

Dhar, Saptarshi - 2019

Bangladesh is experiencing a steady economic and per capita growth over the past few years and entrepreneurial opportunities are also increasing. However, entrepreneurs with disabilities are yet to join the mainstream economy and there is hardly any information available on them. In this paper,...

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Non-contractible Quality in Absence of Reputation Effect : How Emotions and Reciprocity Motivate Service Providers

Sarkar, Sumit - 2019

Standard game-theoretic analysis of a principal-agent problem postulates that in a one-period game the agent will not choose non-contractible quality. However, evidence exists that service providers choose costly quality in non-contractible dimensions, even in absence of reputation concern, if...

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Retaining Volunteer Mediators : Comparing Predictors of Burnout

Harmon‐Darrow, Caroline; Xu, Yanfeng - 2018

Retention of the estimated 30,000 U.S. volunteer community mediators is critical to provision of high‐quality services. Although workers’ retention and burnout is well researched, retention of volunteers such as community mediators is less understood. Survey data of 53 volunteer mediators...

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