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Values, food and bags: A study of consumption decisions in a laboratory supermarket

Matthey, Astrid; Kasser, Tim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We study the relation between people's personal values and environmentally friendly consumption behavior. We first assessed subjects' personal values using the Aspiration Index. Then subjects participated in a laboratory supermarket offering organic and conventional food products and different...

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On Social Identity, Subjective Expectations, and the Costs of Control

Riener, Gerhard; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

cognitive, that is, belief-related, and a behavioral, that is, performance-related, dimension. We test these theoretical … in performance is less pronounced for in-group agents than for no-group agents. In the case of a negative sensation … amplies the performance-enhancing effect of a positive control surprise and mitigates the detrimental performance effect of a …

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Female Presence on Corporate Boards: A Multi-Country Study of Environmental Context

Terjesen, Siri; Singh, Val - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from forty-three...

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Fear of being left alone drives inefficient exit from partnerships. An experiment

Gaudeul, Alexia; Crosetto, Paolo; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and participate in a repeated public good game with stochastic outcomes. They can choose each period between staying in the public project or working on their own. There is excessive exit as...

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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry

Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing …

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Backbone services as growth enabling factor - an Input-Output analysis for South Africa

Fricke, Susanne; Dettmer, Bianka - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

While previous studies highlight the importance of the manufacturing sector in the economy, we argue that rather backbone services play a key role for economic growth. We perform an Input-Output analysis to determine the linkages between backbone services and manufacturing in South Africa. We...

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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development

Fritsch, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...

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The effect of new business formation on regional development - Empirical evidence, interpretation, and avenues for further research

Fritsch, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the effect of new business formation on regional development. After a brief sketch of the origins of research on this issue, the main results of different lines of inquiry are discussed. Main issues are the development of start-up cohorts,...

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Does Quality Make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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The Effect of New Business Formation on Employment - The Dominance of Density

Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Empirical analyses show that the employment effects of start-ups are highest in agglomerations, whereas moderately congested areas exhibit only modest effects, and weak or even no significant effects could be found in rural regions. This paper will set out to show that these discrepancies arise...

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