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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor
Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor
Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150782
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Eco-development and Tribal Empowerment
Pillai, Rajasekharan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The fruits of economic development have not been percolated down to the tribes and marginalized communities. In the Indian experience, neither more than half a century’s economic planning nor official communal reservation mandates helped to better their lot. Myriads of schemes are being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536051
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EMPOWERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH FORESIGHT AND INNOVATION: DEVELOPING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR EMPOWERMENT IN ENTERPRISE PROGRAMS
O'CONNOR, ALLAN; RAMOS, JOSE M. - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 11 (2006) 03, pp. 207-231
This study explores how education and development in the skills and knowledge of foresight, innovation and enterprise … (FI and E) relate to the empowerment of young individuals with respect to creating a new venture. In 2003, three groups of … young persons aged between 13 and 18 years participated in a program designed for empowerment. An evaluation was conducted …
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Innovation projects conducted by distributed teams: the impact of key team characteristics on collaboration
Bourgault, Mario; Daoudi, Jaouad - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°13 (2014) 1, pp. 37-72
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The roles of reward structures and project characteristics in Taiwan's high-tech new product development team performance
Ho, Yung-Ching; Lai, Chi-Shiun; Tai, Cheng-Ling - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 12 (2010) 1, pp. 1-20
make these industries remain profitable are a high degree of product innovation capability. This paper focuses on Taiwan …
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УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ ПОДГОТОВКОЙ И ПЕРЕПОДГОТОВКОЙ СПЕЦИАЛИСТОВ В ОБЛАСТИ РИСК-МЕНЕДЖМЕНТА В УСЛОВИЯХ ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЯ ПОСЛЕДСТВИЙ ГЛОБАЛЬНОГО ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО КРИЗИСА...
АКСЕНОВ В.В.; АНДРЕЕВА Л.Ю.; … - In: TERRA ECONOMICUS 10 (2012) 3, pp. 255-261
В статье выдвигаются новые аргументы для объяснения причин современного мирового экономического кризиса, а также способы интерпретации этих причин при...
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Change, growth and learning
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Maria Julia - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2012
Companies desiring to keep and improve their competitive advantage must be flexible enough to undergo change when needed. Meaningful change requires the ability to learn from their own as well as from others' experience. But learning is not easy, and there are many factors that may prevent it to...
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Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2014
the choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted …. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity …
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Technological Innovation and Its Impact on Business Model, Organization and Corporate Culture – IBM’s Transformation into a Globally Integrated, Service-Oriented Enterprise
Jetter, Martin; Satzger, Gerhard; Neus, Andreas - In: Business & Information Systems Engineering 1 (2009) 1, pp. 37-45
This article investigates the influence of information and communication technology (ICT) on business transformation. First, the general, ICT-driven development lines of globalization and service-orientation are described. Then, an analysis of the IBM Corporation’s transformation over the past...
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