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Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance,
, 1976
"... A model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs. The model focuses on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally motiv ..."
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motivated work behavior to develop; (b) the characteristics of jobs that can create these psychological states; and (c) the attributes of individuals that determine how positively a person will respond to a complex and challenging job. The model was tested for 658 employees who work on 62 different jobs
Self-determination and persistence in a real-life setting: Toward a motivational model of high school dropout.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
, 1997
"... The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive the so ..."
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on an earlier version of this article and Pierre Provencher for his help in collecting the data. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Robert J. Vallerand, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Comportement Social, Departement de Psychologie, University du Quebec a Montreal, C.P. 8888, Station
Behavioral theories and the neurophysiology of reward,
- Annu. Rev. Psychol.
, 2006
"... ■ Abstract The functions of rewards are based primarily on their effects on behavior and are less directly governed by the physics and chemistry of input events as in sensory systems. Therefore, the investigation of neural mechanisms underlying reward functions requires behavioral theories that can ..."
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is excluded Further tests assess the specificity of information contained in CS responses. In the typical behavioral tasks used in monkey experiments, the CS may contain several different stimulus components, namely spatial position; visual object features such as color, form, and spatial frequency
E-GOVERNANCE FOR CROWDSOURCING INNOVATION: A METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING CROWDSOURCING INNOVATION
"... ABSTRACT The strategic changes in companies, as the case of adopting an open innovation model, involving new attitudes towards their internal and external relations, in this sense, there is a need for a preliminary assessment in order to verify their capabilities, skills and knowhow. From the momen ..."
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into account various contingencies that must be evaluated to obtain an improved outcome. From another perspective, the Theory of Impression Management, helps us understand the human interactions that exist and their performance in each implementation. Thus, based on tested theories, which have a high level
Identifying Redundancy and Exposing Provenance in Crowdsourced Data Analysis
"... Abstract—We present a system that lets analysts use paid crowd workers to explore data sets and helps analysts interactively examine and build upon workers ’ insights. We take advantage of the fact that, for many types of data, independent crowd workers can readily perform basic analysis tasks like ..."
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Abstract—We present a system that lets analysts use paid crowd workers to explore data sets and helps analysts interactively examine and build upon workers ’ insights. We take advantage of the fact that, for many types of data, independent crowd workers can readily perform basic analysis tasks like
Using International and Japanese Regional Data to Determine When the Factor Abundance Theory of Trade Works
- American Economic Review
, 1997
"... The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model offactor service trade is a mainstay of international economics. Empirically, though, it is a flop. This warrants a new approach. We test the HOV model with international and Japanese regional data. The strict HOVmodelperforms poorly because it cannot explain th ..."
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The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model offactor service trade is a mainstay of international economics. Empirically, though, it is a flop. This warrants a new approach. We test the HOV model with international and Japanese regional data. The strict HOVmodelperforms poorly because it cannot explain
Overcoming Incomplete Perception with Utile Distinction Memory
- IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING
, 1993
"... This paper presents a method by which a reinforcement learning agent can solve the incomplete perception problem using memory. The agent uses a hidden Markov model (HMM) to represent its internal state space and creates memory capacity by splitting states of the HMM. The key idea is a test to ..."
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This paper presents a method by which a reinforcement learning agent can solve the incomplete perception problem using memory. The agent uses a hidden Markov model (HMM) to represent its internal state space and creates memory capacity by splitting states of the HMM. The key idea is a test
Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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in their clout, investment opportunity sets, access to information, etc. In this study, we ask whether these differences help explain the cross-section of VC investment performance. We focus on the co-investment networks that VC syndication gives rise to, and leave the other two main networks VCs use (involving
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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the construction of an analytical framework that could inform, and better organize, further research. However, given the dif culty of the task, and the necessarily collective character of this endeavour, what is presented here should be considered, literally, as materials to be used in the building of a
Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and Example
"... Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribute these tasks across a large group through online crowdsourcing. Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, crowdsourced workers (microworkers) completed ..."
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Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribute these tasks across a large group through online crowdsourcing. Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, crowdsourced workers (microworkers
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