Technological advances are changing many aspects of business activity and in particular the meaning of distance and geography. Such changes are likely to have profound impact on firms whose activities take place over distance, namely MNEs. Using the motivations for FDI identified in the literature as a theoretical framework, this study examines the motivations of firms producing and selling pro...

We illustrate research run within the EU project IM-CLeVeR (“Intrinsically Motivated Cumulative Learning Versatile Robots”) that aims to investigate learning of actionoutcome associations based on intrinsic motivations, and action recall based on outcome re-activation. The research is based on: (a) the implementation of a “mechatronic board” suitable to investigate learning based on intrinsic m...

Using a mobile-phone-based experience-sampling technology in a sample of 378 individuals ranging from 14 to 86 years of age, we investigated age differences in how people want to influence their feelings in their daily lives. Contra-hedonic motivations of wanting either to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect were most prevalent in adolescence, whereas prohedonic mot...

This article examines the relationship between cultural affiliation and deaf adults' motivations for genetic testing for deafness in the first prospective, longitudinal study to examine the impact of genetic counseling and genetic testing on deaf adults and the deaf community. Participants (n = 256), classified as affiliating with hearing, Deaf, or both communities, rated interest in testing fo...

Despite the impact that influential American political bloggers have had on public policies and the mainstream media agenda in recent years, very little research is currently available on the most widely read political bloggers. Through a survey of 66 top American political bloggers, the present study examines this elite group by analyzing their initial and current motivations for blogging as w...

Research on the adoption of mobile services in everyday life contexts have shown how important entertainment and self -expressiveness are to the users’ adoption of these services. However, as illustrated by the variables of the much applied TAM model, utilitarian motivations are still focused in ICT-adoption research. Mobile parking services may be used as a “crucial test” of the importance of ...

AIM The aim of the present study was to evaluate the representations odontology students had of their career path. Second-year odontology students were questioned about their own motivations and the motivations they attributed to dentists in choosing this profession. METHODS The students were asked to complete a questionnaire during the first course and again after 5 months. It was thus possi...

We propose a range of techniques to motivate people to share a small fraction of their available resources in designing a new networking technology to provide near-ubiquitous connectivity to others. Such technology can be used whenever the infrastructure is unavailable to provide general connectivity between individuals, and to to the Internet at large, and particularly in cases of emergency. P...