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inversely related to the economic status of the family, but the measure of economic status used has not always been the same. In …
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"In the last 200 yr, more than 80% of the land in the U.S. Corn Belt agro-ecosystem has been converted from natural … declining regional ecosystem functions, the amount of land area devoted to row crop production in the Corn Belt continues to … land use will continue to take place that will impact the resilience of the Corn Belt's linked social and ecological …
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pollination systems in many areas of agriculture are threatened by the inadequacy or lack of sustainable managed, indigenous, or …
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by globalisation and information technology, influences individual aspirations and value perceptions. Drawing on land …
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"Assessing the impact of integrated natural resource management (INRM) research poses a challenge to scientists. The complexity of INRM interventions requires a more holistic approach to impact assessment, beyond the plot and farm levels and beyond traditional analysis of economic returns....
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"The recent stagnation of productivity growth in the irrigated areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia has led to a quest for resource-conserving technologies that can save water, reduce production costs and improve production. The present synthesis of two detailed country studies...
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be applied in the family business context. In this article we add familiness to the four BSC perspectives (financial … succession planning in family-owned businesses. We use an action research project to highlight how family businesses can … professionalize their management by the adoption of a BSC strategy map that includes a family business focus and links the core …
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Abstract Drawing on the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship and the resource-based-view (RBV) of the … firm, we investigate how the promotion of family-based brand identity influences competitive orientation (customer versus … product) and firm performance in family businesses. Applying structural equation modeling to survey data collected from …
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is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. This paper analyzes how transfers among family members … recipients, transfers aimed at insuring family members against market risk may have the unintended effect of increasing market … substitutes to family transfers that can reduce parental influence on children's activities and lead to bad market outcomes. Thus …
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