Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actorshave different perspectives and stances towards it. Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) inIndonesia have established themselves in pivotal positions in the social, economic and...

In this paper we review as well as contribute to the empirical literature on the impact of landreform on agricultural productivity in India. We find that, overall for all states, land-reform legislation had anegative and significant effect on agricultural productivity. However, this hides...

The well-known inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is usually explained in terms ofdiminishing returns with respect to land and other inputs coupled with various types of market frictions thatprevent the efficient allocation of land across farms. We show that even in the...

The experience of West Bengal under the panchayat system stands in sharp contrast withthat of other states and, together with land reform, it has been credited for playing animportant role in the impressive economic turnaround of the state since the mid 1980s. WestBengal is the first and the...

Wir wollen in diesem Beitrag zeigen, wie notwendig theoretische Erklärungen der betrieblichen Personalpolitik sind und warum sie - trotz aller Notwendigkeit bisher eher selten sind. Weiterhin wollen wir unseren Weg der Suche nach Erklärungen darstellen: die Methode der Modellkonstruktion, der...

Im Unterschied zu leasingspezifischen Abhandlungen unter Betonung praxisorientierter Fragestellungen, die insbesondere auf geschäftspolitische Untersuchungsgegenstände fokussieren, stellen die folgenden Ausführungen einen Beitrag zur Analyse von Leasing-transaktionen aus der Perspektive der...

... Die Problemstellung dieser Arbeit lautet daher, einen allgemeinen theoretischen Bezugsrahmen zu entwickeln und gleichzeitig deutlich zu machen, wie sich die unterschiedlichen Ansätze auf einleuchtende Weise darin einordnen lassen.

A literature review of Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) shows that the main contributions focus on the development of theoretical models, but not on guidelines for practical implimentation. In this context an important neglected aspect is the...