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Building World Class Businesses for the Long Term
Lee, Gillian; Malone, Roger - eSocialSciences - 2012
This report identifies some of the factors complicating the debate on role of the company in society. It focuses particularly on the changing models of ownership and differing time horizons and on how these have interacted in some ases to produce undesirable consequences.
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Cost of Providing Sustainable Water,Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Services: An initial assessment of LCCA in Andhra Pradesh
Reddy, V Ratna; Batchelor, Charles - eSocialSciences - 2010
Using information in the public domain and data from a pilot study, this paper argues that adoption of life-cycle cost approaches (LCCA) could play a significant role in rectifying this situation by providing a framework for identifying and plugging gaps in the present pattern of expenditure. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752355
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Reframing the Climate Debate
Sharan, Vivan - eSocialSciences - 2014
There is perhaps only one broad certainty in the contemporary debate on climate change: not only does climate change affect different nations and communities differently, but the responses of individual stakeholders and institutions are also quite different, primarily because of their different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945362
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Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) - Sabla
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2012
A new comprehensive scheme, called Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls or Sabla, merging the erstwhile Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) and Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) schemes has been formulated to address the multi-dimensional problems of Adolescent Girls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945408
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An Ethnobiography of Teyyam Performance from a Practitioner’s Perspective
Vohra, Smriti - eSocialSciences - 2011
Rajesh Komath gives a description the conflicts between his socio-material position as a Teyyam performer, and persona/personality as a student of economics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323713
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Teaching How to Bridge Neuroscience, Society, and Culture
Frazzetto, Giovanni - eSocialSciences - 2011
In most universities, sharp disciplinary and departmental divisions continue to this day and have regrettably translated into the life sciences being taught with scarce attention to their historical and epistemological foundations, or to the socio-cultural, political, and economic factors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358538
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Implications of Global Crisis: Integrate Sustainability with Organizational Culture
Rao, Indu - eSocialSciences - 2010
environment. Understanding, assessing and managing organizational culture can help create both stability and adaptability for … paper draws from review of literature on the concepts of sustainability and organizational culture in the present context of … economic turmoil. The findings suggest that organizational culture moderated by leadership and trust play an important role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675403
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Prospects for Regional Cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean Region and the Asia and Pacific Region: Perspective from East Asia
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - eSocialSciences - 2010
distance, but also by disparities in economics, politics, culture, and history. Most recently, a number of forums explored the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694245
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The Two Cultures Revisited: Some Reflections on the Environment-Development Debate in India
Ramesh, Jairam - eSocialSciences - 2010
The speech is mainly about the "two cultures†(modern society—the cultures of the science and that of the humanities) syndrome—the apparent gap between those espousing the case for faster economic growth and those calling for greater attention to protection of the environment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764336
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Festivals Under Shadow of Terror
Joshi, Swati - eSocialSciences - 2008
The terror attacks everywhere have impacted on young people’s lives in many ways. A point of view from Vadodara, India.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250079