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While the perceptual nature of corporate reputation is rarely contested, the role of governance and firm financial performance does not have the same consensus. As reputation is an embedded capability that cannot be distinctly valued or traded, the ambiguity in reputation generation clouds...
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The problems of pastoralist livestock marketing systems in East Africa are well-documented in the literature. They … livestock producers uses a stochastic simulation model to evaluate how policies that mitigate these marketing problems affect … pastoralist incomes and marketing patterns. We find that three of the five hypothetical policy simulations yield statistically …
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of vertical stages in the agricultural production and marketing system. The food systems approach begins with … necessary to achieve these requirements, then systematically diagnoses constraints at each stage in the production/marketing …
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While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...
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This paper studies client trust in professionals, theoretically and empirically. The theoretical elaboration, founded … on general sociological theories of trust, aims to distinguish different dimensions of trust – personal, impersonal …, and process trust – and to explicate the stabilizing identities and control mechanisms on which they are based: persons …
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. Specifically, how trust, confidence and equality matter with regard to tax revenues and tax progressivity. Within this regard, we … achieved strong results linking trust and confidence to higher tax revenues and higher tax progressivity. That is, where trust … among societal members is low, and confidence in public institutions is low, regimes opt for low tax revenues and lenient …
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familiarity with the issue. These factors are elements of a general model of the relations among Trust, Confidence and Cooperation …The nature of the relation between trust and Risk Perception (RP) has recently become a focus of increased interest … among risk management researchers. Some argue that trust is strongly related to RP and that it therefore might prove to be a …
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between consumer confidence in the safety of food in general and consumer trust in particular institutions and organisations … study was to investigate to what extent general consumer confidence in the safety of food was related to consumer trust in …. The first aim of the study was to develop and validate a scale to measure general consumer confidence in the safety of …
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THE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN OUR TIMES IMPOSE A GROWING IMPORTANCE TO 'TRUST' AS A RESOURCE BETWEEN PERSONAL … REDUCING OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY IN OUR NEAPOLITAN REALITY, WE ASSUME THAT IS BETTER TO 'RELIANCE' RATHER THAN TO TRUST. FOR THE …
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