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Demand dynamics with socially evolving preferences [PDF]
Industrial and Corporate Change, 1999 In this work we, first, identify a few stylized facts concerning microconsumption acts. Second, building on them, we develop a simple model of 'boundedly rational' consumers who endogenously evolve their preferences via both innovation and social imitation.
Aversi, R. +4 more
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National Universities in Argentina during the pandemic outbreak
Transformation in Higher Education, 2020 Background: The health emergency that Argentina is experiencing because of the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed institutional normality at all educational levels. Universities have certainly not escaped this logic.
Mariana Mendonça
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The Supply of Social Insurance [PDF]
, 2007 We propose a theory of the welfare state, in which social transfers are chosen by a governing group interacting with non-governing groups repeatedly.
Gonzalez, Francisco M.
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The demand for social interaction [PDF]
The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2008 Abstract In this paper social interaction is modeled as a consumer good. A model of household production is employed to derive the demand for social interaction. The model shows that the demand for social interaction is a function of its price, the price of other goods and income.
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Social occupational therapy and social justice: dialogues based on the demands of trans populations
Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional, 2023 The main purpose of this text is to present reflections guided by the concept of social justice for social occupational therapy focusing on the demands of trans individuals brought up through research based on oral history and ethnographic techniques ...
Késia Maria Maximiano de Melo +2 more
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Modelling job crafting behaviours: Implications for work engagement [PDF]
, 2016 In this study among 206 employees (103 dyads), we followed the job demands–resources approach of job crafting to investigate whether proactively changing one’s work environment influences employee’s (actor’s) own and colleague s (partner’s) work ...
Bandura A +12 more
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Internal representation and factional faultlines as antecedents for board performance in social enterprises [PDF]
, 2015 There is an increasing scholarly interest in how social enterprises manage their hybrid nature. As hybrid organizational forms, social enterprises combine mission-driven social goals and revenue generating activities in a variety of organizational ...
BATTILANA +70 more
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Quality of life in adolescents with a disability and their parents: the mediating role of social support and resilience [PDF]
, 2012 The aim of this study was to test whether the effect of the pile-up of demands associated with a disability on quality of life, was mediated by resilience, quantity and quality of social support for adolescents with a disability and their parents.
Brondeel, Ruben +3 more
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On-demand Influencer Discovery on Social Media [PDF]
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2020 Identifying influencers on social media, such as Twitter, has played a central role in many applications, including online marketing and political campaigns. Compared with social media celebrities, domain-specific influencers are less expensive to hire and more engaged in spreading messages such as new treatment or timely prevention for HIV.
Cheng Zheng 0004 +3 more
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Temps de travail et temps sociaux à Beyrouth
Temporalités, 2013 Based on two examples, bank employees and taxi drivers in Beirut, we examine the “absence” of the issue of working time in social demands in Lebanon. This absence that would be the indicator of the salience of a particular relationship with time : we ...
Marie-Noëlle Abi Yaghi +1 more
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