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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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producers to explore the presence (or lack) of observable differences in size, productivity and management, and upgrading … ownership difference from difference in the management style as they consider management skills to be unobservable in their … variations in management practices and upgrading investments among enterprises. Our findings also suggest that the presence of …
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of entrepreneurs are positively associated. Does it follow that entrepreneurs’ management capacities depend on their … Ethiopia, who benefited more from the program, and who had better management knowledge before the program. We find that highly … educated entrepreneurs were more willing to learn about management, more knowledgeable about management, and gaining more from …
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Are cultural visions of a good life reflected in how people narrate the personal past? Do they tend to emphasize experiences that correspond to their cultural commitments about what is important and worthwhile in the life they are hoping to live? To examine this possibility, Chinese and South...
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study compares the attitudes of university students in China, Russia and the USA to determine whether culture …
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The main purpose of this study is to examine cultural differences between Americans and Chinese in terms of cultural differences, emotional feelings, intolerance and perceived meal price in the context of restaurant settings. The results revealed that there were significant differences between...
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framework to analyse cultural and management-related differences related to mergers and acquisitions (M%As). This review and …
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subordinate respect and performance. Human resource management in China often requires a different approach from that espoused in … the Western literature that currently dominates orthodox management theory. With China's growing economic power and the …This case presents a scenario that pertains to the effective management of human resources in a Chinese cultural …
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behavioral biases induced by culture. We find that greater IU does not necessarily result in lower future returns in China unlike …
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In literature on Natural Resource Management related policies in Africa and Cameroon in particular, Colonial heritage … forest to people breaks with this tradition. The key elements of Colonial heritage in resource management were deduced from … community forestry in Cameroon and questions whether the aim of including the local people in forest management, correcting …
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