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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"voluntary contributions"”.
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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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Stakeholder Contributions and Benefits: A Case Study of a Third Sector Organisation in Wales
… this thesis, I aim to identify all stakeholders’ voluntary contributions and the benefits it brings to a South West Wales charitable organisation, the local community and to the contributing individuals. There is a large body of research that is concerned with the contributions of traditional …
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Essays on Public Good Contribution
… some theoretical and empirical issues in the voluntary contributions to public good. Chapter I contains a brief motivation and introduction. In chapters II and III, we analyze two non-cooperative methods for either enhancing or mitigating externality-causing activities. Chapter II deals with …
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Financing Global Health Governance: The World Health Organization, the WHO Foundation, and the Shifting Landscape of Development Financing
… public financing toward donor-driven, earmarked voluntary contributions. Drawing on WHO constitutional provisions, programme budget data, governance documents, and academic literature, the study traces the evolution of WHO’s financing model and examines how this transformation has constrained the …
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Crowdsourcing Scientific Work: A Comparative Study of Technologies, Processes, and Outcomes in Citizen Science
… enable massive virtual collaborations based on voluntary contributions by diverse participants. As the popularity of citizen science increases, scientists need a more thorough understanding of how project design and implementation decisions affect scientific outcomes.</p> <p>Applying a …
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An Evaluation of the Standard Setting Performance of the FASB
… I also find that a change in FASB funding from voluntary contributions to mandatory accounting support fees is associated with reduced timeliness but no significant change in thoroughness and consensus. Finally, FASB members’ professional and political characteristics appear to influence the …
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AnnoTool : crowdsourcing for natural language corpus creation
… a purpose " paradigm. Crowdsourcing combines contributions from many participants in an online community. Games with a purpose incentivize voluntary contributions by providing an avenue for a task people are already incentivized to do, and collect data in the background. Here the desired data …
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Digital technology and copyright law
… propertization. Alternative models include voluntary contributions (either from creators or consumers); indirect benefit by establishing reputation, selling related services, cross-promotion, or selling advertising; and public funding. The history of telecommunication, including the …
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An investigation of antecedents to social media engagement behaviours
… important for firms to encourage customer's voluntary contributions beyond the purchase transaction through customer engagement marketing efforts (Harmeling et al., 2017), particularly as these contributions, which are the behavioural dimension of customer engagement, called customer …
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Aunties in action: speaking louder than words: rural women developing social capital, women raising funds and spirits
… and reciprocity to flourish; unfortunately, the voluntary contributions of aunties are often taken for granted and seldom included in discussions of social capital or community development. This study offers an important alternative perspective to the notion that unpaid social care provided by …
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The Development of Medical Services in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1843-1936
… of the tenets of self-help and philanthropy; voluntary contributions from all individuals and bodies related to it were embedded into its policies and administration, closely monitored by the Treasury. Following Cameron and Hunter’s work on land reform this thesis makes a contribution to …