Search Results - subject:"Collective Behaviour"

The impact of green marketing on collective behaviour : experimental evidence from the sports industry

Gionfriddo, Gianluca; Rizzi, Francesco; Daddi, Tiberio; … - In: Business strategy and the environment 32 (2023) 8, pp. 5349-5367

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The Production of Step-Level Public Goods in Structured Social Networks: An Agent-Based Simulation

Medina, Francisco José León; Quesada, Francisco José … - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17 (2014) 1, pp. 4-4

This paper presents a multi-agent simulation of the production of step-level public goods in social networks. In previous public goods experimental research the design of the sequence ordering of decisions have been limited because of the necessity of simplicity taking priority over realism,...

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O REEXAMINARE PSIHOSOCIOLOGICĂ ŞI CULTURALĂ A UNOR COMPORTAMENTE COLECTIVE SANCŢIONATE SOCIAL (A PSYCHOSOCIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL RE-EXAMINATION OF CERTAIN DISAPPOINTING COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOURS)

TEODORESCU, ADRIANA - In: Revista Romana de Sociologie 5-6 (2013), pp. 441-458

collective behaviour, characterized by non-conventionalism and which are, in public opinion, evaluated negatively from the … disappointing collective behaviour for efficiency and we have identified two major components: the problematic situation and the … presented two emblematical cases of disappointing collective behaviour: Deletha Word (Detroit, 1995) and Angel Arce Torres …

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Digested Information as an Information Theoretic Motivation for Social Interaction

Salge, Christoph; Polani, Daniel - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 14 (2011) 1, pp. 5-5

Within a universal agent-world interaction framework, based on Information Theory and Causal Bayesian Networks, we demonstrate how every agent that needs to acquire relevant information in regard to its strategy selection will automatically inject part of this information back into the...

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School Attendance and Child Labor -A Model of Collective Behavior

Strulik, Holger - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009

This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapprovalaects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of thecommunity feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-)schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take...

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What affects organization and collective action for managing resources?: evidence from canal irrigation systems in India

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Raju, K. V.; Gulati, Ashok - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000

"Policies of devolving management of resources from the state to user groups are premised upon the assumption that users will organize and take on the necessary management tasks. While experience has shown that in many places users do so and are very capable, expansion of co-management programs...

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Organizational development and natural resource management: evidence from central Honduras

Pender, John L.; Scherr, Sara J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

The determinants of local organizational density and the impacts of local and external organizations on collective and private natural resource management decisions are investigated based on a survey of 48 villages in central Honduras. Factors positively associated with local organizational...

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Local organizations for natural resource management: lessons from theoretical and empirical literature

Rasmussen, Lise Nordvig; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995

The sustainability of natural resource management depends not only on appropriate technology and prices, but also upon the institutions involved in resource management at the local level. This discussion paper aims to identify factors which condition local organization for resource management....

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Gender differentials in farm productivity

Alderman, Harold; Hoddinott, John; Haddad, Lawrence James; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995

Within many African households, agricultural production is simultaneously carried out on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Detailed plot-level agronomic data from Burkina Faso provides striking evidence of inefficiencies in the allocation of factors of production...

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