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Values, public policy, and community food security
Pelletier, David; Kraak, Vivica; McCullum, Christine; … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 17 (2000) 1, pp. 75-93
Values and beliefs regarding communityfood security were investigated among participants in2–3 day participatory planning events related to thelocal food system in six rural counties from oneregion of upstate New York. The results of Qmethodology reveal three distinct viewpoints: a) theSocial...
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ELICITING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT VALUES FOR PUBLIC POLICY DECISIONS
KEENEY, RALPH L. - In: International Journal of Information Technology & … 05 (2006) 04, pp. 739-749
To solve or resolve public policy problems requires decisions. The intent is to choose the best alternative in each situation. Hence, the way the notion of best is defined and measured in each case is critical. A structured process is outlined to acquire knowledge about public values that could...
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State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.
Ahmad, Sayed Javed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
’ve kept the scope of this paper limited to political party, elections and governance. …
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Cultural Differences: A Cross-cultural Study of Urban Planners from Japan, Mexico, the U.S., Serbia-Montenegro, Russia, and South Korea
Rodriguez, Alejandro; Brown, Alvin - In: Public Organization Review 14 (2014) 1, pp. 35-50
This study evaluates the efficacy of Hofstede’s indexes of national culture in the context of public planning agencies … that public planning officials across countries are significantly different on all five dimensions of culture. We comment …
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Entrepreneurship, innovation, and human flourishing
Henrekson, Magnus - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 3, pp. 511-528
This essay uses Edmund Phelps’ new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change (Phelps <CitationRef CitationID="CR67">2013</CitationRef>) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book is laudable for its discussion of what constitutes a “good life”. Phelps argues that...</citationref>
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Institutionalizing Ethical Innovation in Organizations: An Integrated Causal Model of Moral Innovation Decision Processes
Schumacher, E.; Wasieleski, David - In: Journal of Business Ethics 113 (2013) 1, pp. 15-37
This article answers several calls—coming as well from corporate governance practitioners as from corporate governance researchers—concerning the possibility of complying simultaneously with requirements of innovation and ethics. Revealing the long-term orientation as the variable which...
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Values, technologies, and epistemology
Meghani, Zahra - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 1, pp. 25-34
The aim of this paper is to make possible dialogue between those who claim that technologies are coded with social, political, or ethical values and those who argue that they are value-neutral. To demonstrate the relevance of this bridge-building project, the controversy regarding agrifood...
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Can non-market valuation measure indigenous knowledge?
Awatere, Shaun - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
Current New Zealand resource management legislation requires local government actively recognise and take into account Maori epistemologies in resource management planning. The Maori world-view is holistic in nature in that it embodies historical, environmental and spiritual values, as well as...
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Fields of Cultural Contradictions: Lessons from the Tobacco Patch
Wright, D. - In: Agriculture and Human Values 22 (2005) 4, pp. 465-477
conditions of the region that have engendered a culture of tobacco production. The contradiction in production and consumption … determinants of social action and become sensitive to the differential ways commodity actors produce, use, and reproduce a culture … of commodity production and a culture of commodity consumption. This unproblematic and linear association between values …
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Culture: Persistence and Evolution
Schiantarelli, Fabio; Giavazzi, Francesco; Petkov, Ivan - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2014
second generation, and imply lesser degree of persistence. Finally, we show that persistence is ”culture specific” in the …
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