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Showing 1 to 20 of 1895 for “"voluntary"”.
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Chilean Voluntary Repatriation, 1978-2002: How Voluntary, How Gendered and How Classed?
This evidence-based study is about Chilean voluntary repatriation as a political process rooted in the political history of Chile and in the wider context of the end of the Cold War. It considers the two main socio-political scenarios of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and transitional …
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Voluntary Dehydration in Man
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T23:33:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6406065.pdf: 11755146 bytes, checksum: 215dcc3629078dfd20f66f0c16557505 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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“Voluntary Sector-Rich” and “Voluntary Sector-Poor”: What Difference Does the Distinction Really Make?
… (1990) has observed that some communities are voluntary sector-rich, while others are voluntary sector-poor. Therefore, many of the benefits often associated with the presence of nonprofits may not be actualized, or even attainable, in all areas. The purpose of this study was three-fold. First, …
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Job embeddedness versus traditional models of voluntary turnover: A test of voluntary turnover prediction.
Voluntary turnover has historically been a problem for today's organizations. Traditional models of turnover continue to be utilized in a number of ways in both academia and industry. A newer model of turnover, job embeddedness, has recently been developed in an attempt to better predict voluntary …
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Voluntary Action and Conscious Intention
<p>Traditional experimental methodology in neuroscience involves comparing responses to different stimuli to make inferences about the human brain. However, human volition entails making decisions and acting in a manner that is underdetermined by the external environment. Investigations of the …
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Consumer behaviour towards voluntary carbon credits
This thesis explores consumer behaviour toward voluntary carbon credits by integrating Norm Activation Theory (NAT), Social Innovation Theory (SIT), and the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). This research employs a quantitative approach, using data from 431 respondents, analysed with structural …
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Private voluntary organizations : the participation paradox
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Corporate voluntary disclosures of pre-decision information
… consists of two essays in the area of corporate voluntary disclosure of predecision information. The first essay entitled, "Disclosure Choice in a Duopoly", focusses on the phenomenon of partial disclosure, where the manager of the firm discloses selected signals and withholds the rest. The …
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Socio-Economic Characteristics of Voluntary Labor Mobility
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:13:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412024.pdf: 7654198 bytes, checksum: 085d9366a4361089c701acc4afe79112 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Forest conservation through voluntary carbon offsetting interventions
… across multiple countries operating within the voluntary carbon market. The research provides evidence of the impact of local-based REDD+ interventions in reducing deforestation while examining some of the challenges involved in using quasi- experimental methods to evaluate forest-based …
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Voluntary climate change disclosure in South Africa
… Institutional, socio-political and economic voluntary disclosure theories all indicate that there is a pressure for companies to monitor their climate mitigation, evaluate the costs of disclosing and manage stakeholders’ pressures by producing voluntary climate change disclosure. The CDP …
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The Determinants of Voluntary Carbon Emissions Targets
This study seeks to examine whether and how firms near important emissions thresholds change their behavior to meet these targets. Emissions targets are commonly measured in two ways: absolute emissions levels and emissions intensity(absolute levels normalized by sales). To meet absolute …
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Participation of the aged in voluntary activity
… hypothesized a positive relationship between voluntary activity participation and life satisfaction with control for social class. Inverse relationships between voluntary activity participation and major life disruptions;, and between life satisfaction and life disruptions for the aged …
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Voluntary Environmental Initiatives: Sponsorship and Stakeholder Involvement
Voluntary environmental initiatives (VEIs) promise to provide firms and facilities additional flexibility and motivation in managing their environmental affairs in part by reducing compliance and enforcement costs and improving their public image. As a result, since 1990, over 13,000 organizations …
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Using Laboratory Experiments to Better Understand Voluntary Contributions
This dissertation covers three papers concerning voluntary contributions. There are competing theories as to why individuals contribute to projects which help others (e.g., charities); many of the theoretical models have at their core, that an individual is indifferent between giving time or money. …
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Demystifying a relationship between voluntary work and Māori
… reviews the relationship between Māori and voluntary work in social service organisations. Since colonisation very little research has been initiated that investigated the involvement of Māori in voluntary activity yet recent statistics show that Māori are the highest participants in this …
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Voluntary motives to participate in community enterprise activity
This study was concerned with the symbolic costs and benefits associated with different stages of volunteering, from the perspective of 222 participants engaged in three types of community enterprise activity across Scotland. Costs and benefits were set within a social exchange/incentive framework …
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