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"Within the global framework of Sustainable Development, NTFPs (Non-timber Forest Products) draw a great deal of attentions from scholars. However, previous literature and research has mainly placed emphasis on how commercialization of NTFPs contributed to forest management and local livelihood...
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The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and...
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The influence of intangibility on ethnic minority consumers' choice of service providers is reflected in their use of information sources, choice criteria, motivation for switching and valuation of provider attributes. This is examined by drawing from survey responses given by members of a...
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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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Purpose of this paperMuch of the literature on consumer empowerment focuses on consumers’ efforts toregain control of … successful firms’ try hard to understand what consumers want and toimprove consumer satisfaction and empowerment by providing ….What is original/value of paper?We show how consumer empowerment is an important concept. This papercontributes since there is …
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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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important to be aware of what social support they require. One of the possible rendering assistance ways is empowerment. Goal of … empowerment is to stimulate person‘s responsibility for himself, to decrease his helplessness, to help a person become more … effective. In this work it was attempted to reveal empowerment help’s need for long term unemployed. Problem questions. What is …
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The aim of this paper is to look into the essence of customer-contact employees’ empowerment and its outputs as well as … companies’ customer-contact employees’ empowerment and its outputs – job satisfaction and service quality, to identify … interrelationships between service complexity and employee empowerment, to evaluate how interrelate customer-contact employees …
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This thesis investigates how discourses of fairness and empowerment are variously constructed and carried within … networks of South African Fairtrade wine production. Fairness and empowerment have emerged as central discourses for … institutional discourses of Fairtrade and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), yet both retain the capacity for resistance and changes …
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In this thesis, I use stakeholder theory to expand on the idea of employee empowerment in organizational behavior …, recognizing that employees are but one group that can be empowered by managers, and that the empowerment of certain stakeholder … groups will affect not only their own well-being, but also the well-being of other stakeholder groups. Employee empowerment …
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