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Uniting, Leading, and Ruling: Social Skill and the Construction of Local Social Orders A Review on Book: Fligstein N., McAdam D. 2012.A Theory of Fields. New York: Oxford Universit...

Chernysh, Anna - In: Journal of Economic Sociology 15 (2014) 1, pp. 107-115

The review considers a new theory of strategic action fields provided in the book “ATheory of Fields”. The author … organizational theory, the theory of social movements, institutional theory and economic sociology. The last part of the text … criticizes some debatable theses of this theory. Theory of strategic action fields discusses the issue of the local social orders …

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Social Capital in the creation of Human Capital and Economic Growth: A Productive Consumption Approach

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and reciprocity, which underpin cooperation and collective action for mutual benefits, and creates the base for economic prosperity. This study deals with the formation of social...

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Culture, Institutions and Democratization

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under an individualistic and a collectivist culture. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy faster...

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Politik er (næsten) ligegyldigt for demonstrationer

Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The paper communicates the essence of the findings of a study influencing participation in May Day demonstrations in Copenhagen 1980-2013. Political factors seem irrelevant for predicting the level of turn-out at May Day demonstrations. The most important factors are the weather conditions.

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Social psychology and gender efficiency wage gap

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

increase women's productivity, the firm increases their level of employment. In our efficiency-wage theory, women’s lower wages …

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Household waste recycling: National survey evidence from Italy

Fiorillo, Damiano - Dipartimento di Studi Economici "Salvatore Vinci", … - 2011

The paper analyses the determinants of household recycling in Italy with particular emphasis on social behaviour. The econometric analysis is based on two waves - 1998 and 2000 - of the Multipurpose Household Survey conducted annually by the Italian Central Statistics Office. In Italy household...

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Consumer Behaviour in a Social Context: Implications for Environmental Policy

Dasgupta, Partha; Southerton, Dale; Ulph, Alistair; … - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2014

In this paper we summarise some of our recent work on consumer behaviour, drawing on recent developments in behavioural economics, in which consumers are embedded in a social context, so their behaviour is shaped by their interactions with other consumers. For the purpose of this paper we also...

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Family Capitalism Corporate Governance Theory

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

more performant than other types of firms. This paper draws on altruism and on the theory of incentives contracting to … explain why family firms perform better. Assuming that altruism only exists in family firms, we show that the strength of …

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Volunteering, Happiness and Public Policy

Binder, Martin; Freytag, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Is the activity of volunteering something that benefits the volunteer as well as the recipient of the volunteer's activities? We analyze this relationship and apply matching estimators to the large-scale British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set to estimate the causal impact of volunteering...

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Free Riders and Cooperators in Public Goods Experiments: Can Evolutionary Dynamics Explain their Coexistence?

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Zarri, Luca - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2009

An oft-cited and robust result from Public Goods Game experiments is that, when subjects start playing, the aggregate level of contributions is significantly different from zero. At the same time, a sizeable proportion of players free ride from the outset. Behavioural economics has persuasively...

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