Keyword: social

Found 631 papers in total
On the existence of altruistic value and utility functions
On the existence of altruistic value and utility functions
2016,
Altruism is a popular economic explanation for a wide range of pro‐social...
Supply Chain Structure Incentives for Corporate Social Responsibility: An Incomplete Contracting Analysis
Supply Chain Structure Incentives for Corporate Social Responsibility: An Incomplete Contracting Analysis
2016,
Downstream firms increasingly recognize the importance of integrating social and...
Dual Descent Methods as Tension Reduction Systems
Dual Descent Methods as Tension Reduction Systems
2016,
In this paper, driven by applications in Behavioral Sciences, wherein the speed of...
Evolutionary Stability and the Evolution of Cooperation on Heterogeneous Graphs
Evolutionary Stability and the Evolution of Cooperation on Heterogeneous Graphs
2016,
Recent studies have revealed that graph heterogeneity can considerably affect...
The Ordered Timeline Game: Strategic Posting Times Over a Temporally Ordered Shared Medium
The Ordered Timeline Game: Strategic Posting Times Over a Temporally Ordered Shared Medium
2016,
We consider a game of timing between a random number of content creators, who compete...
Mean-Field Game Modeling the Bandwagon Effect with Activation Costs
Mean-Field Game Modeling the Bandwagon Effect with Activation Costs
2016,
This paper provides a mean‐field game theoretic model of the bandwagon effect...
Mean-Field Game Approach to Admission Control of an M/M/∞ Queue with Shared Service Cost
Mean-Field Game Approach to Admission Control of an M/M/∞ Queue with Shared Service Cost
2016,
We study a mean‐field approximation of the M/M/ ∞ queueing system. The...
Driving forces and interfaces between elements of triple bottom line - findings and propositions of TBL management
Driving forces and interfaces between elements of triple bottom line - findings and propositions of TBL management
2016,
The purpose of this study is to explore the interfaces and driving forces between the...
Risk in a Large Claims Insurance Market with Bipartite Graph Structure
Risk in a Large Claims Insurance Market with Bipartite Graph Structure
2016,
We model the influence of sharing large exogeneous losses to the reinsurance market by...
Systemic Analysis of Pensions: The Case of the Taiwanese Primary School Teacher Pension Fund
Systemic Analysis of Pensions: The Case of the Taiwanese Primary School Teacher Pension Fund
2016,
The phenomena of population ageing and the declining trend of birth rate have had a...
Chinese Art in the Social Context: Unfolding the Interplay of the ‘Four Enemies’
Chinese Art in the Social Context: Unfolding the Interplay of the ‘Four Enemies’
2016,
Chinese art has an important status in the world. The aesthetic value of Chinese art...
Institutional Economics and Social Dilemmas: a Systems Theory Perspective
Institutional Economics and Social Dilemmas: a Systems Theory Perspective
2016,
The present paper explains why social dilemmas are endemic to the regime of functional...
Institutionalism and the Influence of the Cultural Values of the Family Subsystem on the Management of the Small‐Medium Family Firms
Institutionalism and the Influence of the Cultural Values of the Family Subsystem on the Management of the Small‐Medium Family Firms
2016,
The current work advances and tests an explanation for the flow of values in...
Contested Modelling: a Critical Examination of Expert Modelling in Sustainability
Contested Modelling: a Critical Examination of Expert Modelling in Sustainability
2016,
We discuss the role of expert modelling in sustainability using a framework designed...
Critical Rationalism for Practice and its Relationship to Critical Systems Thinking
Critical Rationalism for Practice and its Relationship to Critical Systems Thinking
2016,
Critical rationalism for practice (CRforP) attempts to provide a framework for...
Modelling the Emergence of Shared Attitudes from Group Dynamics Using an Agent-Based Model of Social Comparison Theory
Modelling the Emergence of Shared Attitudes from Group Dynamics Using an Agent-Based Model of Social Comparison Theory
2016,
We propose a novel agent‐based implementation of Festinger's social comparison...
Mechanisms for Understanding Mental Model Change in Group Model Building
Mechanisms for Understanding Mental Model Change in Group Model Building
2016,
Mental model change and mental model alignment are reported outcomes of group model...
Pricing a rural development program: uncertainty, indifference, and protest behaviors
Pricing a rural development program: uncertainty, indifference, and protest behaviors
2016,
This article presents an econometric approach to modeling uncertainty, unwillingness...
Ecosystem Approaches to Health and Well-Being: Navigating Complexity, Promoting Health in Social‐Ecological Systems
Ecosystem Approaches to Health and Well-Being: Navigating Complexity, Promoting Health in Social‐Ecological Systems
2016,
Ecosystem Approaches to Health (also known as ‘ecohealth’) link population...
Towards a Practice of Systemic Change – Acknowledging Social Complexity in Project Management
Towards a Practice of Systemic Change – Acknowledging Social Complexity in Project Management
2016,
The Anthropocene calls for systemic change which requires much more than good ideas,...
Educating and Empowering Children for Governing in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Children's Homes in Sri Lanka
Educating and Empowering Children for Governing in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Children's Homes in Sri Lanka
2016,
Educating children and young people on how to care for the environment is the focus of...
Predicting time-to-churn of prepaid mobile telephone customers using social network analysis
Predicting time-to-churn of prepaid mobile telephone customers using social network analysis
2016,
Mobile phone carriers in a saturated market must focus on customer retention to...
Inventory model with variable demand rate under stochastic inflation for deteriorating and ameliorating items with permissible delay in payment
Inventory model with variable demand rate under stochastic inflation for deteriorating and ameliorating items with permissible delay in payment
2016,
In this paper, an inventory policy for the production units is presented with...
A portfolio analysis approach to assist socially responsible investors in making decisions
A portfolio analysis approach to assist socially responsible investors in making decisions
2016,
The main research question addressed in this paper is concerned with the cost of being...
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