Browsing Management Sciences by Subject "motivation"
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Benefits and Costs of Restriction: A Comparison of Unrestricted, Restricted Gift Card Spending and Cash Spending
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Archival data of unrestricted and restricted gift card transactions was compared with national level consumer spending data from both the U.S. and Canada to investigate the similarities and differences in purchase pattern. ... -
Motivational Differences in Aiming for Wide or Narrow Goals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-06)Goal setting theory has consistently found that high and specific goals lead to better performance than low and vague goals do. However, the independent effect of each of these two dimensions, difficulty and specificity, ...