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Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed...
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Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...
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of suppliers in supermarket value chains, and affect the development of their capabilities. The impact on the competitive …
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capabilities and investments required by suppliers to access shelf space and remain competitive. Finally, the paper looks at the … role of supermarkets and governments in developing local supplier capabilities and the importance of harmonizing policies …
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Performance is the lifeblood of a firm's management. Performance itself depends on the adaptation of strategy, based on … learning and the environment. An important way that firms adapt their strategy is through imitation or mimetic isomorphism …
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the diversity of sports-related organizations. The purpose of this study is to observe the performance of sports clubs by …, network and relationship as well as planning and development resources within the organization. The potential usefulness of …
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Many companies are now attempting to achieve triple bottom line performance on financial, environmental and societal … metrics. Successful strategies for such performance, however, generally require new relationships among multiple players in … describe and implement a single organization's strategy, needs to be adapted to reflect such multi-stakeholder strategies for …
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strategy and performance. In doing so, we develop two forms of communication: fit and distraction. Fit refers to the congruence … enhance the effects of a corporate strategy on performance. Using a unique dataset of German small enterprises, we find that … between external communication and strategy, while distraction implies the external communication of an alternative strategy …
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