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This paper evaluates land-use conflict between cattle pasture and tropical rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon and attempts to reconcile negative production externalities within the framework of carbon finance. Specifically, it analyzes the price per metric ton of CO2e that would make...
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This thesis explores the role of emerging markets in investment portfolios. Could an investment portfolio consisting of emerging market securities have outperformed similar portfolios that did not contain emerging markets over recent years? Gathering data from January 1, 2009 to December 31,...
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Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action. Regime of...
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article notes that not only the end date of the war in Ukraine may be important for business and economies, but also which of …
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The days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by as the boom-and-bust cycle runs its course and the global climate crisis becomes more acute. As the province scrambles to boost the dying oil economy and curb spending, one solution is all but ignored—a sales tax....
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business ecosystems. The book results from collaborative work between researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and … expertise in sustainable urbanism, transition governance, the redesign of systems, lifecycle analysis, and business model …
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to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models, two pure models (subscription …-sponsored rival often entails business model reconfigurations, a phenomenon that we dub "competing through business models." We also … than a mixed,business model because of cannibalization and endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our …
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of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can be taken as a study of the entrepreneur and new business creation. However …
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In this study, made with contribution from Bálint Herczeg, we sum up the experience of SMEs regarding the global economic crisis as well as the survey results related to this topic. The paper also introduces solutions SMEs have chosen to survive.
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The purpose of this thesis is to determine US firms’ motivations for foreign direct investment and to explore to what extent US firms continue to invest into China and India. I first correlate the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors in the United States with those of China and India....
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