What motivates European firms to adopt environmental management systems?

Why Do Firms Adopt ‘beyond-compliance’ Environmental Policies?

This paper examines why firms selectively adopt ‘beyond-compliance’ environmental policies. It argues that existing explanations based on factors external to firms are under-specified and a focus on internal dynamics is also required. It draws insights from institutional theory, corporate social performance perspective, and stakeholder theory and relates them to internal processes. Beyond-compl...

What Motivates People to Become Teachers

What Motivates Employees?

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the discussion about what motivates employees. This paper briefly describes the seven stages of psychological development and the corresponding levels of motivation. These are linked to Harvard Professor Robert Kegan’s work on the three types of mind (socialized mind, self‐authoring mind, and self‐transforming mind). Each of the three types of mind has dif...

To Adopt or Not to Adopt Computer-Based School Management Systems? - An ITEM Research Agenda

What Motivates Youth Civic Involvement?

The topic of youth civic engagement is increasingly popular in social science research; however, the question of why some youth are civically involved while others are not is not well understood. This article addresses the following questions: What motivations and barriers do youth report for civic involvement? How do motivations and barriers differ across school contexts? A qualitative study u...