This is partly the motive, for example, of Marxist and other efforts to relate specific types of political systems to stages of economic development or particular kinds of socioeconomic organization.
I think it is a bit more complicated than "profit motive" versus "non-profit motive". For example, Google provides money to universities for basic research, and that is very helpful.
Atkinson's (1964) theory of motivation, for example, views motivation as the product of two key components – motives and expectancies.
For example, previous studies have shown that more autonomous motives for exercise correspond to positive outcomes such as adherence [ 44] and enhanced well-being [ 35, 44– 44].
that the moral sense is concerned with motives — we approve, for example, of the motive of benevolence, and the wider the scope the better.
Some motives are honourable – for example the desire to help people to live healthier lives; while others are more base – fame, power, money.
This is the removal of the previous requirement for a protected disclosure to be made in "good faith" (this being that the disclosure had to be made with honest motives and not, for example, personal gain).
Independent conditions — our motives and beliefs, for example — may incline us toward one or another intention or action.
Noah is apathetic, lacks vivacity, yet God, in choosing him, shows an irrationality we have seen before in Genesis (favouring Abel's offering over Cain's and setting up the first motive for murder, for example).
In the UK, motives are generally individualistic, for example money, self-promotion or success (though as there is little research in this area, we acknowledge that this assertion is somewhat subjective).
