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Group decision making
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Public disclosure for pollution abatement: African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experiment

A linear public good experiment has been employed to investigate strategic behaviour in pollution abatement among African climate decision-makers...

Group decision making Hazardous wastes Natural disasters
Working Paper
The Effects of Group Composition and Fractionalization in a Public Goods Game: An Agent-Based Simulation

Behavioural economics highlights the role of social preferences in economic decisions. Further, populations are heterogeneous; suggesting that group composition may impact the ability to sustain voluntary public goods contributions...

Group decision making Public goods Social choice
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Does an Educated Mind Take the Broader View? A Field Experiment on In-group Favouritism among Microcredit Clients

A number of studies document an in-group bias in social dilemma situations. While group structure and dynamics are important in shaping in-group favouritism, less attention has been paid to individual characteristics affecting favouritism...

Education Group decision making Microfinance
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Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?

This text focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs and some public sector groups...

Cooperative societies Equality and inequality Group decision making
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Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?

This text focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs and some public sector groups...

Cooperative societies Equality and inequality Group decision making
Book Chapter
Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants, and Consequences for Within-group Behaviour

From the book: Group Behaviour and Development

Sociological aspects (Economics) Group decision making Social capital (Sociology)
Book Chapter
Group Behaviour and Development

From the book: Group Behaviour and Development

Cooperative societies Cost effectiveness Equality and inequality
Book Chapter
Dynamic Interactions Between the Macro-environment, Development Thinking, and Group Behaviour

From the book: Group Behaviour and Development

Economic development Group decision making
Book Chapter
Group Behaviour and Development: A Comparison of Farmers' Organizations in South Korea and Taiwan

From the book: Group Behaviour and Development

Agricultural laborers Group decision making Labor unions
Book Chapter
Information Women's Groups in Rural Bangladesh: Group Operation and Outcomes

From the book: Group Behaviour and Development

Group decision making Nonprofit organizations Rural development
Book Chapter
Conclusions

From the book: Group Behaviour and Development

Cooperative societies Group decision making Nonprofit organizations
Book Chapter
Sex Workers in Calcutta and the Dynamics of Collective Action: Political Activism, Community Identity, and Group Behaviour

From the book: Group Behaviour and Development

Group decision making Nonprofit organizations Organizational behavior
Working Paper
Sex Workers in Calcutta and the Dynamics of Collective Action: Political Activism, Community Identity and Group Behaviour

This paper explores the nature of collective action and group behaviour through a case study of a highly successful political organization of poorer sex workers in Calcutta...

Group decision making Nonprofit organizations Organizational behavior
Working Paper
Individual Motivation, Its Nature, Determinants and Consequences for within group Behaviour

The paper deals with evaluating the adequacy of the assumption that in economic transactions people are self-interested insofar as they are motivated solely by the concern of maximizing their own utility, and in particular with assessing how this ass...

Sociological aspects (Economics) Group decision making Social capital (Sociology)
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Group Behaviour and Development

A very large amount of activity occurs within groups (that is within families, firms, co-operatives, conununities or governments). Yet most economic analysis focuses on market transactions between these agents...

Cooperative societies Cost effectiveness Equality and inequality
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