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A holistic approach to the management of electrical assets within an Australian supply utility
Brown, Colin - University of Western Sydney; Sydney Graduate School of … - 2005
Asset-rich organisations (utilities) within Australia have entered into an era of environmental change, imposed largely by successive Federal and State Governments wanting to exact financial returns from these State Owned Corporations (SOCs). These changes have created a shift in the paradigms...
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Infrastructure, market access, and agricultural prices
Minten, Bart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
The effect of recent agricultural market reforms in many developing countries is often measured through tests for market integration by analyzing co-variation of food prices. However, market integration studies often fail to link the discovery of the lack of integration to causal factors. This...
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Infrastructure and technology constraints to agricultural development in the humid and subhumid tropics of Africa:
Spencer, Dunstan S. C. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1994
Green Revolution technologies have not been widely adopted in Africa. What are the chances that they will play a major role in the near future? This paper shows that the enabling infrastructure, especially rural roads and irrigation systems are not likely to be in place in the humid and...
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Sovereign lending gone wrong : who bears the costs?
Schraner, Ingrid; Emerging Financial Markets and … - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2004
This exploratory issue paper begins with a statement by Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, which outlines what a well-functioning global financial system would achieve, followed by his dry statement that the current global financial system does none of these things. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482147
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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries
Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … generating short-run income effects. The book develops a conceptual framework for analyzing public expenditures and their short … public investment on urban and rural poverty through case studies of India, China, Thailand, and Uganda. And it highlights …
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Transitional and quasi-objects in organization studies : viewing Enron from the object relations world of Winnicott and Serres
Carr, Adrian; Downs, Alexis - University of Western Sydney; College of Social and …; … - 2004
It is proposed to examine how these two different models of human relations - that of Winnicott and Serres - illuminate features of contemporary organizational life.With these models, one can view recent scandals in the USA, specifically the implosion of the energy firm, Enron. Previous accounts...
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Engendering an innovative culture and maintaining operational balance
Hyland, Paul W.; Beckett, Ronald C.; Reinvention Network - Central Queensland University; University of Western Sydney; … - 2005
This paper aims to identify key elements of innovative culture using innovation audit tools. The research seeks to determine if factors such as the ability to collaborate are important in building a culture that supports innovation. Many firms are continually scanning the environment for sources...
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Hegemony and its discontents : a critical analysis of organizational knowledge transfer
Mir, Raza; Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby; Mir, Ali - William Paterson University of New Jersey; University …; … - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs), and how the imperatives of thought and action that constitute new knowledge are received in the terrain that constitutes the MNC subsidiary. This study employs an ethnographic...
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Influences on financial decision making among the rural poor in Bangladesh
Jackson, Laurel R. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010
This thesis gives a voice to the chronically poor people of rural Bangladesh, enabling them to tell their own stories about the nature of their financial decision making which is taking place within the marketing systems that are operating in all poor villages in the region. Financial decision...
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Understanding small- and medium-sized firms' financial skill needs
Lee, Geoffrey; McGuiggan, Robyn L. - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2008
Small- and medium-sized businesses make a significant contribution to the economies of Western countries. Government, industry, and educators commonly train business managers to improve their skills and knowledge in order to improve the performance of these firms. Owner-manager financial skill...
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