What Motivates Common Pool Resource Users? Experimental Evidence from the Field [PDF]
This paper develops and tests several models of pure Nash strategies of individuals who extract from a common pool resource when they are motivated by a combination of self-interest and other motivations such as altruism, reciprocity, inequity aversion ...
James J. Murphy +2 more
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Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between firm ownership and organizational performance with a focus on heterogeneity in the professionalization of management. Using a comprehensive panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, the study identifies significant ownership‐ and management model‐related differences in productive efficiency. The
Javier Ortiz, Ana F. Gargallo‐Castel
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The Development, Validity and Reliability of the Willingness of Prosocial Behavior Scale for Community-Dwelling Older Adults Using Classical Testing Theory. [PDF]
Clin Interv AgingXiong W +8 more
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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Image, and Incentives [PDF]
We examine motivations for prosocial behavior using new data on volunteer firefighters that contain a dictator-game based measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other behavioral factors, and call records that provide an objective measure of time spent
Caitlin Knowles Myers, Jeffrey Carpenter
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Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter +2 more
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Reasoning and empathy are not competing but complementary features of altruism. [PDF]
PNAS NexusLaw KF +5 more
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Do religious contexts elicit more trust and altruism? An experiment on Facebook [PDF]
We design a decision-making scenario experiment on Facebook to measure subjects’ altruism and trust toward attendees of a religious service, a fitness class and a local music performance.
Bradley J. Ruffle, Richard Sosis
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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Heterogeneity in job preferences among young physicians in Chinese tertiary hospitals: a discrete choice experiment. [PDF]
BMJ OpenLi Q, Zhang Q, Han Y.
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The Evolution of Altruism in Spatially Structured Populations [PDF]
The evolution of altruism in humans is still an unresolved puzzle. Helping other individuals is often kinship-based or reciprocal. Several examples show, however, that altruism goes beyond kinship and reciprocity and people are willing to support ...
Andr�s N�meth, K�roly Tak�cs
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