the anonymous reviewers for valuable comments to an earlier draft of this paper and Tone Kvamme and Guro Larsson for excellent research assistance. The usual disclaimer applies. ABSTRACT KEYWORDS: hotels‚ Oslo‚ room rates‚ price hedonics‚ SUR Price hedonic theory states that the price for a product may be thought of as an additive function of the various utility-bearing attributes embedded in the product. Within this framework‚ the present study demonstrates how the room rates for hotels
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Inducing Intrinsic Motivation to Explore the Enterprise System: The Supremacy of Organizational Levers Weiling Ke‚ Chuan-Hoo Tan‚ Choon-Ling Sia‚ and Kwok-Kee Wei Weiling Ke is an associate professor of operations and information systems in the School of Business at Clarkson University. She holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. Her research areas are enterprise systems‚ open source software‚ and electronic commerce. Her research has been published in the Journal of Operations Management
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EXPLAIN THE MAIN STRENGHTS OF A UTILITARIAN ETHICAL SYSTEM [25] 27/9/13 Utilitarianism‚ the theory that actions are right if they useful for the majority‚ the greatest happiness and pleasure for the greatest and majority of people. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English moral philosopher concerned with social reform‚ Bentham wanted people to seek pleasure and avoid pain. On the other hand John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) who was a great admirer of Bentham; however‚ he believed
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environment degradation problem. Such as ecological modernization theory which analyze how contemporary industrialized societies deal with environmental crisis‚ or the World-System theory. The theory that will be discuss in this paper will be the Treadmill of Production theory which was developed and introduced around the same time as the ecological modernization but unlike ecological modernization which look into the transformation features in organizations and society which are paralleled by physical
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one is vitreous door‚ the third and the fourth ones are surrounded by mirrors. I arrived there 6 in the evening‚ just 2 treadmills had been busy‚ out of 5 treadmills. One of them was busy with a big and tall black man‚ he put had set of his ears and the other one was busy by a Chines man. I chose one treadmill which I could see the whole gym during my exercise. There were two different men who had been busy by bodybuilding both of them were foreigners
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and my goal (owns a notebook)‚ by buying it. The motivation I had then resulted from my needs‚ both utilarian and hedonic. On the one hand‚ utilarian need implies my attention towards to objective and tangible attributes of the products. My utilarian need was the necessity of using the laptop to do homework‚ paperwork and presentations. On the other hand‚ there also existed a hedonic need‚ which was due to my subjective and emotional responses to the product and to
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Bicycle ergometers‚ Cross trainers ... * Steppers‚ Vibration platforms * Treadmills * Rowing machines with ergometers * Exercise pulleys‚ Exercise wheels ... * Exercise balls‚ Exercise cushions‚ Exercise mats * Exercise bands‚ Exercise ropes‚ Exercise plates * Hospital wards‚ Hosting * Medical pillows | * Cardiac and cardio-pulmonary stress test equipment * Treadmill ergometer JOG NOW * Exercise bicycle (rehabilitation) BIKE IFI *
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featuring the award-winning singer. The first ad features Swift preparing for a jog on her treadmill. She puts on headphones and uses her phone to turn on the song “Jumpman” by Drake and Future. The rap song begins to play as she starts her run‚ and Swift begins to rap the song enthusiastically. With her arms flailing‚ she raps her way through half of the first verse. In mid-stride‚ she falls torso-first onto the treadmill as the belt carries her to the floor. Another ad featuring Swift was released on April
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happiness for the most people. However‚ the possible consequences of different actions must be measured clearly to establish which option generates the most pleasure and the least pain. To measure the results‚ Bentham proposed the hedonic calculus. 3. The hedonic calculus The hedonic calculus weighs up the pain and pleasure generated by the available moral actions to find the best option. It considers seven factors: 1. Its intensity. 2. Its duration. 3. Its certainty or uncertainty. 4. Its propinquity
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The Hedonic Calculus would seem to support the community over the individual in certain‚ less extreme cases‚ but in situations such as rape‚ the moral choice is always the right one‚ no matter how many people are involved. Although an immoral act will always
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