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Capital intelectual y resultados empresariales en la cadena de la madera de Oberá (Argentina)
JARDÓN, FERNÁNDEZ; Mª, C.; MARTOS, SUSANA MARÍA - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 26 (2008) Julio, pp. 141-164
This paper seeks to analyze the impact of intellectual capital on business performance. A model is elaborated to study organizations located in developing countries areas. The investigation was conducted using a survey to the timber value chain firms in Oberá, Misiones (Argentine).The main...
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The new kid in the forest: the impact of China's resource demand on Gabon's tropical timber value chain
Terheggen, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population challenges the small-country assumption inherent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257896
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Deforestation and welfare : evidence from Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372511
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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu; Brian A, Jingwa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three moment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372554
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Population Growth and Forest Sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Jingwa, Jingwa Brian - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693301
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Deforestation and Welfare: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862078
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Entrepreneurial risk as consequence of contradictions of economic interests in forestry in Russia
Morkovina, S.; Popkova, Elena; Panyavina, E.; Ivanova, A. - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 94-101
groups of risks, defining entrepreneurial activity in the forestry sphere, are determined. The most dangerous risky factors … are spotted and their profile is obtained in respect of forestry entrepreneurship. A methodical approach to assessment of … business risks in forestry is formulated, by using criteria values of the consequences of risk manifesting and probability of …
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Transgenic Trees: Implementation and Outcomes of the Plant Protection Act
Sedjo, Roger - 2004
The responsibility for protecting U.S. agriculture from pests and diseases is assigned by the Federal Plant Pest Act (FPPA) to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture. The Plant Protection Act (Title 7 U.S.C. Sections 7701 et seq.) gives Aphis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442518
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Determinants of Success and Failure in Internationalisation of the Cork Business: a Tale of Two Iberian Family Firms
Branco, Amélia; Parejo, Francisco; Lopes, João Carlos; … - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, GHES - … - 2014
a long run analysis (of more than one century) of two firms which operate in the cork business in Spain and Portugal …
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Arbeit – Politik – Recht: Das Recht(ssystem) als Forschungsdesiderat in den Arbeitsbeziehungen – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft
Rehder, Britta; Vogel, Berthold - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 22 (2015) 1, pp. 8-12
Das deutsche System der industriellen Beziehungen weist im internationalen Vergleich gemeinhin ein hohes Mass an Verrechtlichung auf. Umso ueberraschender ist der Umstand, dass das Recht und seine Akteure, Institutionen und Verfahren in der Forschung ueber Arbeitsbeziehungen seit Jahrzehnten...
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