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explained by a new social trend: hypermodernity. The consequences of lifestyle entrepreneurship behaviours on economic …The aim of this paper is to conduct an exploratory study, based on four exploratory cases, of lifestyle … entrepreneurship. Our inquiry is focused on the topic of local embeddedness: Does the location chosen for self satisfaction comply with …
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innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …
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Small to medium enterprises (SME) are frequently associated with high levels of innovation. However, it is difficult … for such firms to fully assess the merits of a particular innovation. This study examined the risk-return profile of … future investment in innovation by SME with respect to anticipated ‘rent' or financial returns. A survey of highly innovative …
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Whereas studies on the optimal taxation under endogenous longevity assume a fixed heterogeneity of lifestyles, this paper considers the optimal tax policy in an economy where unequal longevities are the unintended outcome of differences in lifestyles, and where lifestyles are transmitted across...
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mortality patterns. To examine that issue, this paper develops an overlapping generations model where a healthy lifestyle and an … unhealthy lifestyle are transmitted vertically or obliquely across generations. It is shown that there must exist a locally …
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Las experiencias en cooperación en el ámbito del turismo y el desarrollo, fruto de la dilatada colaboración entre investigadores españoles y latinoamericanos, ha sido importante. Así lo constatan el número de proyectos financiados por el Programa de Cooperación Interuniversitario de la...
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Since 1990s environmental protection and awareness became major issues. Consumers are more and more aware of environmental issues and conscious of existing pollution caused by mass tourism. Consequently a new segment of demand desiring sustainable tourism products have appeared, enhancing...
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This article is an entry to be published in an International Encyclopedia of Civil Society in 2009. Mutual organizations exist everywhere in developed and developing countreies as well. After a definition founded on social economy principles, the paper gives the historical background of mutual...
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International standard classifications were built to simplify the complex world of the business sector and analyse the international exchange of goods. Therefore they are less fitted to the classification of social economy organizations(SEO) and provision of services. Firstly this chapter...
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This article aims to investigate the multiple meanings of "économie sociale" ("social economy"), a term which first appeared in France at the founding moment of modern capitalism, both as a concept in the framework for the creation of a social science in close relation with the tradition of...
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