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Nyttan av den akademiska friheten
Kulturella Perspektiv, 2008 The university is like a corporation insofar as it aims to meet the needs of the society in which it operates. In this respect, the widespread notion that academic research and teaching can and ought to be audited and assessed in a manner comparable to ...
Sharon Rider
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The regressive demands of demand-driven development [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2013 Despite their explicit focus on reaching the poor, many community driven development (CDD) projects have been found to be only mildly pro-poor in their funding allocations. This paper presents evidence of an explanation that has been overlooked in the CDD literature to date: the requirement that beneficiaries must apply for projects in order to receive
Baird, Sarah +2 more
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On the Importance of demand Consolidation in Mobility on Demand [PDF]
2019 IEEE/ACM 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), 2019 Mobility on Demand (MoD) services, like Uber and Lyft, are revolutionizing the way people move in cities around the world and are often considered a convenient alternative to public transit, since they offer higher Quality of Service (QoS - less waiting time, door-to-door service) at a cheap price.
Araldo A. +3 more
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Labour supply and skills demands in fashion retailing [PDF]
, 2011 If, as Adam Smith once famously suggested, Britain was a nation of shopkeepers then it is now a nation of shopworkers. Retail is now a significant part of the UK economy, accounting for £256 billion in sales and one-third of all consumer spending ...
Hurrell, S.A. +11 more
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How Demanding Is the Revealed Preference Approach to Demand? [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2011 A well-known problem with revealed preference methods is that when data are found to satisfy their restrictions it is hard to know whether this should be viewed as a triumph for economic theory, or a warning that these conditions are so undemanding that almost anything goes. This paper allows researchers to make this distinction.
Tim Beatty, Ian Crawford
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A Time-Lagged Examination of the Greenhaus and Allen Work-Family Balance Model
Behavioral Sciences, 2020 The work-family interface is a compelling topic that calls into question labor market dynamics and work processes, together with important social and family composition changes. The present study aimed at examining the antecedents of Work-Family Balance (
Alfonso Landolfi +2 more
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, 2008 We formulate several laws of individual and market demand and describe their relationship to neoclassical demand theory. The laws have implications for comparative statics and stability of competitive equilibrium. We survey results that offer interpretable sufficient conditions for the laws to hold and we refer to related empirical evidence.
Michael Jerison, John K.-H. Quah
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Examining the mediating and moderating role of psychological capital in the job demands-resources model [PDF]
, 2014 Includes bibliographical references.Employee wellbeing has become a major concern for organisations globally, with an increased interest in the prevention of burnout and the maximisation of employee work engagement.
Brouze, Kim Lisa
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Does job burnout mediate negative effects of job demands on mental and physical health in a group of teachers? Testing the energetic process of Job Demands-Resources model [PDF]
, 2015 Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate the direct and indirect – mediated by job burnout – effects of job demands on mental and physical health problems. The Job Demands–Resources model was the theoretical framework of the study.
Łukasz Baka, Baka, Łukasz
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The main predictors of well-being and productivity from a gender perspective
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionGender difference management is one of the most challenging dimensions organizations must cope with to adapt to VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environments.
Kevin Martínez-Martínez +4 more
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