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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"Self-interest"”.
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Virtue and self-interest
… answer is that to act morally is in an agent's self-interest. Such an answer can be either elevationist (broadly speaking the Aristotelian/Platonic approach) where self-interest is elevated to coincide with living the good life, or reductionist where morality is defined as acting in an agent's …
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Redefining marketing : self-interest, altruism and solidarity
Exchange is argued to be a flawed foundation upon which to build a definition of marketing. 'Homo economicus' is rejected, while altruism and solidarity are affirmed to be highly significant motivations in understanding and influencing the behaviour of target publics in certain nonbusiness …
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Self-interest, national interest and the political leader's responsibility
… have called for international cooperation in the interests of humanity while the realists have emphasized self-interest and national power. An examination of the formation of the Panama Canal Treaties shows that neither school is adequate in explaining how national interest is defined. Instead, …
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NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS’ SELF-INTEREST: FIDUCIARY DUTIES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
… its benefit since it is incapable of acting by itself. Where there is a separation of ownership and control it is recognised that there is a risk that those in control may use their power for self-interested means. Attention is often focused on the executive directors and how legal controls and …
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The Morality fo Materiastic Self-Interest, The Corporation of the State
… of familiar individuals, with the morality of self-interest when unfamiliar individuals engage in economic transactions under capitalism. When Smith wrote, corporations were legally required by the state to serve the public interest and control was not separate from ownership. There was balance …
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Attitudes toward resource conservation and conservation behaviour: the moderating role of self-interest and social values
… related to important goals or values in the self-concept (Kronsnick, 1990). In the present study, the attitude object -- resource conservation -- was experimentally linked to participants' important values to investigate whether attitude importance, conservation behaviour, and …
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Enlightened self-interest : how the national economy, ideology, and anti-Americanism influence public opinion on foreign investment
… foreign investment is not determined by economic self-interest, but rather by evaluations of the national economy, political ideology, and attitudes about the United States. These findings have implications for understanding the debate over globalization policy and domestic support for further …
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What’s in It for Me(n)? The Impact of Self-Interest on Men’s Support for Gender Inclusion Initiatives
… present dissertation aims to investigate whether self-interest may be utilized to motivate men to support gender inclusion initiatives in the workplace. In Study 1 (N = 177), using an experimental design with a student sample, I tested whether framing a gender inclusion initiative as beneficial to …
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For the good of the group: how empathy and self-interest simultaneously condition individual support for economic redistribution
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Norms, self-interest and effectiveness: explaining double standards in EU reactions to violations of democratic principles in sub-Saharan Africa
… have mostly been attributed to the prevalence of self-interested objectives of the EU, this dissertation considers two additional factors: (1) a potential conflict in the EU‟s normative objectives (democracy, development and stability) and (2) expectations about the effectiveness of negative …
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Working for the Glory of God: The Distinction Between Greed and Self-Interest in the Life and Letters of the Apostle Paul
… is sufficient to discern a distinction between self-interest and greed. The review of literature in chapter 1 reveals that definitions of greed often rely on such terms as “excessive” and “inordinate,” without defining the terms. Chapter 2 shows Paul’s expectation that believers work usefully in …
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Media ownership and the exploitation of media power for corporate self-interest: a case study of News International's coverage of the BBC and OFcom
… exploits his newspapers in pursuit of commercial self-interest. This work demonstrates how the news agenda can be deliberately manipulated to suit the commercial self-interest of dominant owners, and provides evidence of the way in which proprietors such as Murdoch can exploit their dominance of …
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A Gentlemen's Benevolence: Symptoms of Class, Gender, and Social Change in Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Mill on the Floss
… Emma, uses benevolence as a means of mediating self-interest and sympathy. By acting out of sympathy, through benevolence, he achieves the self-interested benefits of reinforcing the class system and achieving his romantic conquests. Likewise, Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby learns how to use …
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LONGING TO BELONG: IDENTITY AND ORGANIZATION THEORY
… insight that humans are as motivated by identity self interest - or the "longing to belong" - as by instrumental self interest. The first paper (chapter 2) spells out this insight and its implications for the governance of knowledge intensive organizations; the second paper (chapter 3) offers an …
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History, organization and belief among Cuban "plantado" political prisoners, 1959-1993
… life, and are not necessarily thin veils for self interest masquerading as principle. Rather, important religious and cultural beliefs take on a life of their own independent of material self interest; this allows for individuals to commit to causes where there are powerful incentives to …
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The Organizing Dilemma: Individualism, Collectivism, and the Control of Organization
… necessities of social organization and member self-interest. On one hand, modern societies are based on organization, a pattern of interaction which is maintained through member contributions to organizing processes. On the other hand, member self-interest directs attention away from …
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An investigation of the effects of complexity in federal income tax laws on the compliance of nonresident students
… law when compliance would be in their economic self-interest. "Economic self-interest" is narrowly construed in this study, being defined as an individual's utility for saving tax dollars. "Complexity" is operationalized by the system of nonresident taxation. A situation is investigated wherein …
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School staff positions on P1 composite classes
… analysis. An analysis of this data identified self-interest and educational ideology as powerful influences on the way school staff defined PI. Different definitions of the PI situation led to the construction of different modes of accommodation. For example, a supportive stance was adopted …
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