People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and previous research suggests both "intentions" and incentives underlie this effect. We report data from an experiment aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in producing non-cooperative behavior. Participants play a one-shot investment experiment in pairs. Investors send an amount to trustees...

this research was conducted to investigate the effect of acetylation and type of resin on fire resistance of one and three layered populus particleboard. populus particles were acetylated at three levels of acetyl content (wpg of 0, 8.39% and 17.27%). in manufacturing of one and three layered boards with acetylated particles in all thickness or surface of the boards two type of resin, urea form...

Byextending the traditional trust gametosettings involvingmore thanone trustee,westudy how restricting informationflowbetween trustees influences trust and reciprocity.We start with a theoretical investigation and then report the results of two experiments designed to examine investor strategy and trustee behavior. Our results suggest that, compared to when information flow is unrestricted, res...

the study objects for investigating the possibility of activating both audit committee and board of directors for restricting the practices of earnings management phenomenon. to achieve this objective, a questionnaire had been developed and self-administered for a selected sample consists of 123 auditors working in jordan based on the simple random sampling method. the study first hypothesis is...

background the critical role that the board plays in governance of universities clarifies the necessity of evaluating its performance. this study was aimed to evaluate the performance of the boards of medical universities and provide solutions to enhance its performance.   methods the first phase of present study was a qualitative research in which data were collected through face-to-face semi-...

the effect of the filler content and the different type of wood flour on the mechanical properties of polyethylene- date palm wood flour (dpwf) composite which are gathered from date palm tree annual pruning was studied. the different types of dpwf were stem, leaf and the mixture of stem and leaf. composites were made at 45, 60 and 75 % by weight filler contents. the particle size was 25-40 mes...

The three original founding healthcare systems and 10 sponsoring religious institutes of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) have developed an unprecedented governance model to support their vision of a national Catholic health ministry in the twenty-first century. The new organization spans 22 states; annual revenues exceed $4.7 billion. Religious institutes choose either active or honorary stat...

46 When Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins in the late nineteenth century bequeathed seven million dollars to found a university and a hospital, he only hinted at the nature of the relationship he intended to exist between the two institutions.1 With separate boards of trustees, the two institutions evolved and grew significantly independent of one another. This mutual autonomy continued late int...