The question of embeddedness has been recently raised to become one of the widely discussed issues of various contemporary social sciences. Embeddedness can be broadly understood as the degree to which individuals or organizations (firms, groups) are enmeshed and entangled in a given social...

The conference will include sessions on agriculture, the environment, rural communities and economic development, food and related industries, land use, and development economics.

The workshop is being organised as part of a collaborative research project between Aston University, UK and Dhaka University, Bangladesh funded by the British Council under its INSPIRE (International Strategic Partnership in Research and Education) scheme. The project focuses on “Corporate...

Key note speaker - Professor Jonathan Eaton, Penn State University

Agriculture Investment Conference 2011 will explore the opportunities available in what is currently one of the most attractive investment classes around. Markets for agricultural commodities are being squeezed and with underinvestment in agriculture for the last few decades demand is likely to...

Topic: Evolutionary Thinking and its Policy Implications for Modern Capitalism. This workshop is designed to provide in-depth discussion of cutting-edge issues, in a forum that permits the attention to detail and definition that is often lacking in larger, conference-style events.

The Efficiency & Productivity Analysis stream aims to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with the development of DEA methodology and its hybrids and applications of DEA to performance management and measurement in both public and private sectors. Theoretical and empirical...

The 6th ICEF aims to explore the current and potential future extent and nature of interdisciplinary research and management practice across the environmental domain. Eighty speakers, from many countries have agreed to give presentations, and abstracts from up to 370 registered participants will...

For 2011 the AHE Conference theme is Economists of Tomorrow. This reflects the fact that, the world over, we are focused on challenging the hegemonic domination of our profession by just one approach embedded in mainstream economics, the neoclassical approach. The clear failure of neoclassical...