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The analysis of the main determinants of intra-firm diffusion of digital technologies is becoming in the focus of attention. However, there is a lack of empirical research, particularly in Europe. This paper proposes a specific approach to modelling intra-firm diffusion process by combining the...
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The Brazilian organic food sector has experienced important growth during the last two decades. Brazilian smallholders … Institutional Economics and socio-anthropology, we analyze six experiences of Brazilian smallholders who converted to organics in … inclusion of smallholders into all three food systems. We confirmed the arguments in support of pursuing the agroecological …
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problem, the national agricultural research institute of Benin and Africa Rice Center have developed improved rice parboiling …
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empirical evidence supporting the main assumption and predictions of the model using plant level panel data of Chilean …
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To market a new network technology effectively, manufacturers need to understand the structure and size of network effects associated with the product. If consumers' surplus from adoption depends positively on the number of interconnections in the network, early adopters may need to be...
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This paper studies the link between the design of international environmental agreements and the incentives for the private sector to invest in cleaner technologies. More specifically, it compares the performance, in the Paretoo sense, of two types of agreement : an agreement on a uniform...
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We consider an optimal technology adoption AK model in line with Boucekkine Krawczyk and Vallée (2011): an economy, caring about consumption and pollution as well, starts with a given technological regime and may decide to switch at any moment to a cleaner technology at a given permanent or...
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Using survey data of around 10,000 households from 10 OECD countries, we identify the driving factors of household adoption of water-efficient equipment by estimating Probit models of a household's probability to invest in such equipment. The results indicate that environmental attitudes and...
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institutional conditions of its implementation. Kenya is a particularly interesting case as it is characterized by a rather long … prices and prices volatility are jointly estimated, using monthly data over the 1994-2009 period in Kenya. …
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The existing literature on Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs) focuses on individual characteristics and organizational context but fails to convincingly address the issue of process dynamics in terms of effective and ineffective CKO moves and strategies. In order to address this gap we review...
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