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Ecology and Society, 2008 Institutions are the mechanisms that integrate the human and ecological spheres. This paper discusses the institutional challenge of integrating salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) ecosystems and human systems in ways that effectively promote resilience.
Susan S. Hanna
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Identity in Family Firms: A Theoretical Analysis of Incentives and Contracts [PDF]
BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2017 We developed a principal-agent model that coherently and parsimoniously explains previous findings from research on executive compensation in family firms.
Marcelo Sanches Pagliarussi +1 more
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Incentives for smoking cessation.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019 BACKGROUND Financial incentives, monetary or vouchers, are widely used in an attempt to precipitate, reinforce and sustain behaviour change, including smoking cessation.
C. Notley +5 more
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Aligning Ambition and Incentives [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Labor turnover creates longer term career concerns incentives that motivate employees in addition to the short term monetary incentives provided by the current employer. We analyze how these incentives interact and derive implications for the design of incentive contracts and organizational choice.
Eloic Peyrache +2 more
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Economic impact and risk analysis of integrating sustainable aviation fuels into refineries
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023 The growth of the aviation industry coupled with its dependence on energy dense, liquid fuels has brought sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) research to the forefront of the biofuels community.
Nicholas A. Carlson +4 more
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Optimal Incentives in a Principal–Agent Model with Endogenous Technology
Games, 2018 One of the standard predictions of the agency theory is that more incentives can be given to agents with lower risk aversion. In this paper, we show that this relationship may be absent or reversed when the technology is endogenous and projects with a ...
Marco A. Marini +3 more
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Social Science Research Network, 2007 This paper experimentally examines image motivation--the desire to be liked and well regarded by others--as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial ...
D. Ariely, Anat Bracha, Stephan Meier
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Today policy makers face the challenge to devise a policy framework that improves orphan medicinal product (OMP) development by creating incentives to deliver treatments where there are none and to authorize innovative and transformative treatments where
Annemieke Aartsma-Rus +2 more
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Corporate Governance, Incentives, and Tax Avoidance
, 2015 We examine the link between corporate governance, managerial incentives, and corporate tax avoidance. Similar to other investment opportunities that involve risky expected cash flows, unresolved agency problems may lead managers to engage in more or less
C. Armstrong +3 more
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Using technical assistance to bridge evidence‐to‐action gaps in biodiversity conservation
Conservation Science and PracticeThe field of biodiversity conservation is in the midst of a cultural and practical transformation around evidence use, but the necessary institutional and technical support is still emerging.
Natalie S. Dubois +4 more
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