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A Multi-Country Assessment of Mobile Payment Adoption
Au, Yoris A.; Zafar, Humayun - College of Business, University of Texas-San Antonio
Mobile payments (m-payments) are seen as having a bright future. However, the adoption of m-payments has been uneven globally. Different countries have different adoption experiences. In this research, we ask the following question: “What are the factors that account for different patterns of...
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Land Use Change, Carbon Sequestration and Poverty Alleviation
Lipper, Leslie; Cavatassi, Romina - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
Land use change is a key requirement for improving rural incomes and making a significant reduction in poverty levels globally. Over 70% of the world’s poor are located in rural areas, with land use as a major source of subsistence. Improving the productivity of their land use systems is...
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Farmers' mobilisation of social capital for beneficial uptake of technological innovations in southwest Nigeria
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Harpham, Trudy - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 7 (2014) 2, pp. 147-166
Social capital has been identified as an important factor influencing successful uptake of technological innovations among small-scale, rural farmers in developing countries. This study draws on descriptive statistics and regression analysis of data obtained from 325 farmers in southwest Nigeria...
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Homeowners' preferences for adopting innovative residential heating systems: A discrete choice analysis for Germany
Michelsen, Carl Christian; Madlener, Reinhard - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 5, pp. 1271-1283
Space heating accounts for a large fraction of the primary energy consumption and CO2 emissions of residential buildings in Germany. Besides targeting the insulation standard, innovative (i.e. renewable energies-based and/or energy-efficient) residential heating systems (RHS) offer the potential...
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Homeowners' Preferences for Adopting Residential Heating Systems: A Discrete Choice Analysis for Germany
Madlener, Reinhard; Michelsen, Carl Christian - Institut für Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior … - 2011
Space heating accounts for a large fraction of the primary energy consumption and CO2 emissions of residential buildings. Besides targeting the insulation standard, residential heating systems (RHS) based on renewable energy sources offer the potential to reduce energy demand for space heating....
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Determinants of Households' Investment in Energy Efficiency and Renewables: Evidence from the OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes
Ameli, Nadia; Brandt, Nicola - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Many studies on household energy efficiency investments suggest that a wide range of seemingly profitable investments are not taken up. This paper provides novel evidence on the main factors behind consumer choices using the OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes. The...
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Analysis of transportation and logistics processes for soybeans in Brazil
Fliehr, Olivia - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2013
improve the national infrastructure, particularly in the ports in northern Brazil, could lead to large improvements in the … in Brasilien zu ermitteln, wurde eine Markt- und Kostenanalyse für vier Anbaugebiete im Sorriso-Santos-Korridor mit … auf dem Weltmarkt gehört Brasilien zu den Hauptversorgern der weltweiten Sojanachfrage. Der Einfluss von Logistik und …
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Mobile payments: Main trends in the retail industry
Apanasevic, Tatjana - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
The main objective of the ongoing study is to investigate obstacles and driving forces affecting organization adoption of innovation. In order to that an example of the mobile payments applied in the Swedish retail industry has been used. The main analyzed factors are: adopter characteristics,...
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Mobile Payments in the Netherlands: Adoption Bottlenecks and Opportunities, or… Throw Out Your Wallets
Waris, F.S.; Mubarik, F.M.; Pau, L-F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2006
The purpose of this research report is to analyse the mobile payment market size and its revenue basis, as well as adoption bottlenecks, in view of establishing the adoption and deployment of mobile banking services in The Netherlands. The research report describes various aspects with regard to...
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Can mobile eco-systems for technical innovations be standardized? The case of mobile wallets and contactless communication
Markendahl, Jan; Andersson, Per; Mattsson, Lars-Gunnar - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
This paper puts focus on the application of Near Field Communication technology (NFC) to mobile payments. Uncertainties about global policies open for a variety of local business policies. Taking into account different representations of actor interaction as described by different eco-systems by...
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