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Managing new product development within the SMEs
Maladzhi, Rendani Wilson - 2008
Product innovation has transformed the minds of business people because of its ability to increase productivity. Other than increased productivity it also allows companies to extend the range of the available products to consumers as well as lowering the prices consumers have to pay. Product...
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Empowerment of non-academic personnel in higher education: exploring associations with perceived organizational support for innovation and organizational trust
Lau, Wing Keung Jason - 2010
Employee empowerment has long been associated with organizational outcomes such as innovation, greater effectiveness …-to-day operations of a university; therefore, organizational strategies such as employee empowerment that encourage initiatives and ….The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the levels of empowerment and perceived organizational …
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On the case for "black economic empowerment" in South Africa
Black P.A. - 2002
This paper started by briefly pointing to the economic dilemma which gave rise to the Black Economic Empowerment …
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Sustainable development in four Swedish communities priorities, responsibility, empowerment
Lindström, Marianne; Küller, Rikard - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 10 (2008) 3, pp. 311-336
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010997209
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Integrated Community-Based Disaster Management Program in Taiwan: A Case Study of Shang-An Village
Chen, Liang-Chun; Liu, Yi-Chung; Chan, Kuei-Chi - In: Natural Hazards 37 (2006) 1, pp. 209-223
Taiwan has long made efforts to increase community emergency response capability, due to its vulnerability to earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and debris flows. Not until recent major natural disasters, such as the 1999 Chi–Chi Earthquake, Typhoon Toraji and Typhoon Nari, has the government...
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The Pathology of Social Capital in Iran Universities: A Case Study from Sistan and Baluchestan and Zahedan Azad University
Sargolzaie, Alireza - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 7, pp. 1-9
dimension of social capital such as identity, empowerment, cooperation and public benefit, trust, cooperative management …
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Empowerment, un análisis desde el perfil demográfico
Rendón, Lizbeth Pérez; Barrón, Alejandro Guerrero - In: Panorama Administrativo Journal 6 (2012) 11, pp. 5-18
comunicación se analiza como el perfil demográfico del docente, influye en la formación del empowerment a través de un análisis …
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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor
Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
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Participatory Methodology and Action Research in the Area of Health
Thiollent, Michel Jean-Marie; Toledo, Renata Ferraz de - In: International Journal of Action Research 8 (2012) 2, pp. 142-158
education, prevention, health promotion and empowerment. It also intends to show how the use of this methodology in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856869
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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Cannonier, Colin; Mocan, Naci - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2012
We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...
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