Crowdfunding provides innovation in enabling entrepreneurs to contract with consumers before investment. Under demand uncertainty, this improves screening for valuable projects. Entrepreneurial moral hazard threatens this benefit. Studying the trade-off between screening and moral hazard, the paper characterizes optimal mechanisms. Popular all-or-nothing reward-crowdfunding schemes reflect thei...

A randomised field experiment was conducted at the University of Malaga in 2017 to examine personalised norm-based messages’ effects on response rates annual faculty satisfaction survey. This research had a factorial design that combined formal versus informal writing styles with four messages: no norm, moral suasion, duty and social norm. The results reveal two treatments – informal-moral info...

民主主義は今、大きな岐路に立たされている。民主主義の機能不全ともいうべき兆候は、1980年代以降に国内外で現れ始めた。国政選挙への参加である選挙投票率の顕著な落ち込みがそれである。これと並行して権威主義が勢力を伸長するようになった。権威主義は民主主義よりもコロナ対応に効果的であるというデータに基づいて、民主主義のたそがれ時が訪れたとする議論が勢いを増している。しかし、権威主義とコロナ禍対応の有意な関係は見せかけの相関に過ぎない。なすべきことは民主主義のアップグレード、すなわちデジタル民主主義の構築である。本稿では、その要となる方法として、「二次の投票」と合意形成のプラットフォームである「Pol.is」を取り上げ、民主主義の新たな地平を素描する。

the persian literature, whether verse or prose, is filled with the ethic, moral, mystical, and educational concepts and ideas. among the great poets, sa' di has a specific approach toward these supreme notions. one may notice many moral and educational concepts and attitudes in the 7th & 8th chapters in his golestan. in this research, it has been tried to survey the various factors and gro...

Moral judgment is an evaluation of the actions and character of a person made with respect to societal norms. Although many types of vignettes have been used in previous studies on moral beliefs and judgment, what is missing is a set of standardized common vignettes based in real life. The goal of this study was to provide researchers with stimuli that have values on several dimensions pertaini...

Sustainable development (SD) requires companies to take into account both the social and environmental consequences within their activities. This paper presents research about green supply chain management and highlight the differences between green supply chain and traditional supply chain management. Then, the paper analyses the sources of the risk in green supply chain according to the SD. S...