There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning...

In the past few decades, so-called model organisms have become a cornerstone of research in the biomedical sciences. For the scientists, the model organism is both a practice ground for developing laboratory techniques, and a source of insights into common or even universal biological...

The main contribution of this paper to current philosophical and sociological studies on modelling is to analyse modelling as an object-oriented interdisciplinary activity and thus to bring new insights into the wide, heterogeneous discourse on tools, forms and organisation of interdisciplinary...

When the German translation of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in 1860, it intensified a conflict that German theologians had been fighting since the early 19th century. Arguments against the secular relativising or even thorough dismissal of the scientific, philosophical and...

The development of David Ricardo’s economic theory of distribution -the laws that determine the share of output between the economic classes -depended on specific connections at several levels between two practicalsciences of the early 19th century, namely experimental agriculture andpolitical...

An apology is a strong and cheap device to restore social or economic relationships thathave been disturbed. In a laboratory experiment we find that harmdoers use apologies inparticular if they fear punishment and when their intentions cannot be easily inferred. Afteroffenses with ambiguous...

Die direkten Determinanten (typischer Fan, Trainer, Mannschaft, einzelne Star-Spieler sowie Management und Vereinsleitung) üben den stärksten Einfluss auf die Markenpersönlichkeit professioneller Sportvereine aus.Die Wirkung der Markenpersönlichkeit lässt sich mittels der Kongruenztheorie...

Die Abkopplung der Erlössituation vom sportlichen Erfolg ist eine zentrale Herausforderung für professionelle Sportvereine. Der Markennutzen besitzt die höchste Relevanz für das zukünftige Verhalten der Nachfrager.Relevante Markennutzen sind: Identifikation, Nostalgie, soziale Interaktion,...

Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) is a new participative pricing mechanism whereby consumershave maximum control over the price they pay. Previous research suggests that participativepricing increases consumers’ intent to purchase. Sellers using PWYW face the risk, however,that consumers exploit their...