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Forced migration and resettlement as a strategy for development: An analysis of implications based on a study of the New Halfa Scheme in eastern Sudan

Plater, Terry Denise - 1994

Involuntary migration and resettlement is examined as a development strategy and analyzed in an intensive study of the New Halfa Scheme in eastern Sudan. New Halfa was created between 1962 and 1969 to foster economic development through large-scale irrigated agriculture and to compensate,...

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Understanding IT adoption and consumption within the social structure of a consumer's economy

Ting, Sherman; Dawson, Linda; Dubelaar, Chris - 2009

Research into adoption, acceptance and consumption of Information Technology (IT) within its diffusion cycle has been extensively studied in Information Systems (IS) and marketing. However, research often focused too narrowly on technology adoption rates and drivers leading to technology...

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Capitalist regulation and unequal integration: The case of Puerto Rico

Benson, Jaime Eduardo - 1993

This dissertation postulates that as effect of the model of development adopted by Puerto Rican authorities since the late forties, Puerto Rico became a "Regional Armature" of U.S. intensive accumulation and monopolist regulation over the 1950-1980 period. The asymmetrical insertion of the...

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The Influence of Environmental Values, Economic Values and Social Structure on Consumers’ Choice of Green Hotels: The Case of Luxury Hotels

Choe, Yunseon; Lehto, Xinran; Day, Jonathon - 2011

While many hotel companies have participated in various green initiatives and adopted green policy, when it came to the real purchasing decision, their willingness was not matched by action. There could be many reasons for such inconsistency. Lack of consumer demand, increasing environmental...

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Enterprise hybrids and alternative growth dynamics

Levin, Kenneth M - 2004

This dissertation argues that the impetus, growth, and financial success of many North American high-tech companies--biotechnology, computer software development and design, as well as Internet startups--are partly due to their collective way of organizing the production and distribution of...

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Fashions, Habits and Changing Preferences: Simulation of Psychological Factors Affecting Market Dynamics

Janssen, Marco A.; Jager, Wander - 2007

conceptual meta-theory from psychology. The artificial consumers have to choose each period between similar products. Products …

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Reassessing the ontology of contemporary organisational decision-making processes for healthier Asian economies

Ninan, Abraham; Pillay, Hitendra K. - 2007

This paper reassess modern day decision-making processes for healthier Asian economies by systematically unpacking and critiquing key assumptions that drive organisational communication and cultural systems in contemporary Asia. The term non-Western refers to interests of Asian economies and...

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A Methodological Case Study on the Theory of Demand

Müller, Olaf L. - 2005

My philosophical case study concerns textbook presentations of the theory of demand. Does this theory contain anything …. But then, the theory implies false factual claims. We can avoid this result by embracing the theory’s normative character … of physics by Oliver Timmer. Applying his ideas to the theory of demand reveals that the statements of this discipline …

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Determinanten der Entlohnung

Bechter, Barbara - 2009

auf Basis der neoklassischen Theorie, derzufolge die Lohnhöhe das Ergebnis der Transaktionen von Arbeitsangebot und … -nachfrage am Arbeitsmarkt sind. Beobachtbare Lohndifferentiale zwischen Arbeitskräften kann diese Theorie nur sehr begrenzt …

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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons

Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993

"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...

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