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Social class lies at the core of much that Marx said about the “laws of history.” Class conflict was to be the means whereby capitalism would be overthrown, superseded by a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat and, subsequently, by a communist society in which alienation and...
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corporatism.” But with democratization, Japan’s, Taiwan’s, and South Korea’s business associations and unions came more under the … influence their members, and a new balance in relations with the state emerged in an arrangement known as “societal corporatism …/methodology/approach – The historical transition from state corporatism to societal corporatist practices in East Asia is discussed on the basis …
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Purpose The economic literature identifies two families of motives for private transfers: altruism and exchange. Altruistic models postulates that transfers are unselfish assistance to vulnerable and poor households. Exchange models, however, explain transfers as temporary assistance to...
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Purpose Credit is central in labour allocation decisions in smallholder agriculture in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of credit constraints on farm households’ labour allocation decisions in rural Burkina Faso. Design/methodology/approach The study...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the effect of communication satisfaction (CS) on employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), considering the role of organizational trust as a mediating variable within the Iranian cultural context. Design/methodology/approach –...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain three phases of modernisation change in the Sydney water sector from the early 1980s to 2007 and comments on how those phases of change are likely to be impacting the nascent development of water management processes in Sydney‐based water...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain how and why the initially ambitious reform of the Dutch water sector turned into a moderate pace of change. The explanations are based on institutional theory. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a case study at the organizational...
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Purpose – Aims to provide a new wireless design for utility management and billing systems using GSM networks that can be used by large utility sites. Design/methodology/approach – Traditional energy and water meters are replaced or enhanced to produce digital readings. A hardware interface...
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Purpose – This paper aims to test the 100‐days rapid change model for African public water utilities. Design/methodology/approach – A case study is conducted of three 100‐days rapid change programs in public water utilities in Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. Findings – The study finds...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to carry out an analysis of Italian water utility companies to determine whether their performance was related to certain relevant variables that have been broadly discussed in the existing literature. Among these are ownership structure, size and...
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