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Value Congruence as a Source of Intrinsic Motivation
Ting Ren
ARTICLE | KYKLOS | Vol. 63, February 2010
Organizations consist of members with different value systems Agency theory suggests that employees may value self-interests more than that of the organization they work for, which motivates them to avoid work responsibilities when opportunities exist...
Keywords: Value Congruence, Intrinsic Motivation
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Joining the WTO: What is the Impact?
Christopher Balding
ARTICLE | Review of International Economics | Vol.18, 2010
Research has called into question the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on trade This research, however, has been called into question on both modeling grounds for and failing to utilize comprehensive fixed effects...
Keywords: WTO, Trade
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Overconfidence in Tournaments: Evidence from the Field
Young Joon Park, Luís Santos-Pinto
ARTICLE | Theory and Decision | Vol. 69, 2010
This paper uses a field survey to investigate the quality of individuals’ beliefs of relative performance in tournaments...
Keywords: Tournaments, Rationality, Field Experiment
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The Effects of Environmental Factors on the Behavior of Chinese Managers in the Information Age in China
Wing S. Chow, Jane P. Wu, Allan K. K. Chan
ARTICLE | Journal of Business Ethics | Vol. 89, 2009
This paper examines the effects of environmental factors on the ethical behavior of managers using computers at work in Mainland China...
Keywords: Canonical Correlation Analysis, China, Environmental Factors, Ethical Behavior, Managers, Using Computer at Work
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The Gender Difference of Peer Influence in Higher Education
Li Han, Tao Li
ARTICLE | Economics of Education Review | Vol. 28, 2009
Investigations of the existence of residential peer effects in higher education has shown mixed results...
Keywords: Resource Allocation, Educational Economics
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Properties and Estimation of Asymmetric Exponential Power Distribution
Dongming Zhu, Victoria Zinde-Walsh
ARTICLE | Journal of Econometrics | Vol.148, 2009
Our parametrization provides an interpretable role for each parameter We derive moments and moment-based measures: skewness, kurtosis, expected shortfall...
Keywords: Asymmetric distributions, Maximum likelihood estimation