Introduction to Competing Motivations

Segmentation refers to rhetorical strategies that combine the competing motivations of work—artistic and commercial—in order to explain combinations of different job types.

Conclusions Overall, our findings suggest that in the context of competing motivations for exhibiting altruistic or self-interest behavior, oxytocin enhanced self-interest and this was associated with greater activation in frontal reward areas.

Complications include the anonymity and competing motivations of online actors, poorly understood platform dynamics, and the sparsity of information regarding message transferal across communication platforms.

Seven core inductive themes were identified: ‘Knowledge-deficit sitting behaviour’, ‘Willingness to change’, ‘Tied to the desk’, ‘Organisational support and interpersonal influences’, ‘Competing motivations’, ‘Emotional influences’, and ‘Inadequate cognitive resources for action’.

Their roles as mining boosters traps environmental consultants between competing motivations—the drive of their expertise and training to act as competent and transparent technicians—and the flush of boom times which produces an inverse relationship between competence and lucre.

Competing motivations are often at work in the choice of form and meaning of possessive and associative noun phrases.