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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Bandwagon effect"”.
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The effect of cognitive bias video instruction on high school biology student acceptance of evolution: Implications for teachers and educational leaders
… biases have long been studied for their effects on an individual's decision-making. This study is the first of its kind to link these preferential thinking patterns to high school biology students' acceptance of evolution. At five urban high schools, 164 high school biology students were …
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Essays on Stakeholder Activism and Firm Practices
… as shareholders, and how it might influence the effectiveness of their social proposals when firms face competing requests for change. Results suggest that social-oriented proposals reduce social performance because they can increase the presence of wealth-oriented proposals, which together can …
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Essays on the political economy of development
… short-term policies can have long-term perverse effects. Furthermore, reducing bureaucratic size might non-intuitively increase corruption, and the mere perception that supervisors are corrupt reduces official-merchant corruption. Chapter 2 proposes an explanation for the political bandwagon …
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An Examination of the Evolution of Broadband Technologies in the UK
… of technology, path dependence, and the role of bandwagon effect. These research threads are combined to understand the way development, deployment, and adoption of broadband technologies took place in the UK. The research is intended to contribute to the understanding of technology in a …
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Essays on State Business Tax Incentives and Policy Diffusion
… the existing film industry in the state and a "bandwagon" effect based on the total number of adopters. The second essay investigates whether similar adoption patterns hold for four other state tax incentive policies: Investment Tax Credits, apportionment formula changes, R&D tax credits, and …
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Adoption of innovations: modelling the interplay of behavioural biases, incentives and network structure
… large organisations concerns their ability to effectively adopt new operational practices. Many streams of literature have looked into this challenge and generally, two reasons have been given to explain the difficulty of adopting: the uncertain utility an individual gets by adopting the new …