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ABSTRACTThe importance of developing alternative livelihoods in Indonesia is reaching a critical level. Over 60% of the population is reliant upon the ocean for employment and destructive fishing practices have destroyed over half of the marine habitat . As a result, family incomes have suffered...
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entrepreneurs are embedded in co-ethnic and non co-ethnic networks and the affect of embeddedness on business performance, such as … of embeddedness on entrepreneurial business performance. This research seeks to identify the impact of embeddedness in co … empirical testing to a research area with little empirical testing. The results indicated that embeddedness in the co …
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Except for few studies, not many have analyzed the significance of embeddedness and networks for consumers coping with …
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stratified random sample of 50 software firms in the two cities. Embeddedness is examined via location reasons, sources of …-firm collaboration and new and ex-employees are fundamental to the industry’s embeddedness at the metropolitan scale and at the local …
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to be utilized in a number of ways in both academia and industry. A newer model of turnover, job embeddedness, has … recently been developed in an attempt to better predict voluntary turnover than existing models. Job embeddedness consists of … analyses were conducted on the job embeddedness model. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted on the dimensions of job …
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The purpose of this essay is to provide the historian with a generic understanding of the term economy by examining some aspects of the work of the Hungarian “economic historian” Karl Polanyi (1886-1964). It does not seek to explain Polanyi's economic ideas to economists nor does it seek to...
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embeddedness and autonomy in these subsidiaries. A large-scale survey of French, German, and US manufacturing subsidiaries in the … United Kingdom is used to test the importance of embeddedness (host-country sourcing and use of networks) and autonomy … such subsidiaries. The results indicate that growth of embeddedness and autonomy factors are important, especially for the …
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This paper outlines methodological frameworks for conducting research and development with agribusiness supply chains in transitional economies where the objective is to improve the competitiveness of the supply chains in a global environment. The key difficulty when operating with supply chains...
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This article is based on a socio-economic impact study of the introduction and adoption of tissue-culture (tc) technology in banana production in Kenya. It attempts to demonstrate that a prudent introduction and promotion of a new biotechnological innovation in farming can make a positive...
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One of the common strategies in rural development programmes is to support the adoption of new on-farm activities. The rationale behind this is that farm diversification is a way to assure an appropriate level of income for the farmers. Through interviews with 49 relatively small farmers, the...
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