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Understanding the rural third sector: insights from Veblen and Bogdanov
Valentinov, Vladislav - In: Kybernetes 41 (2012) 1/2, pp. 177-188
Purpose: Despite the worldwide importance of third sector organizations in rural areas, the theoretical connection between the third sector and rural development remains largely unexplored. The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical explanation of why and how third sector...
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An application of principal component analysis and logistic regression to facilitate production scheduling decision support system: An automotive industry case
Mehrjoo, Saeed; Bashiri, Mahdi - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering International 9 (2013), pp. 1-12
Production planning and control (PPC) systems have to deal with rising complexity and dynamics. The complexity of planning tasks is due to some existing multiple variables and dynamic factors derived from uncertainties surrounding the PPC. Although literatures on exact scheduling algorithms,...
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Community-based health insurance and social capital: A review
Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5
Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...
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Loan repayment performance and its determinants: Evidence from micro and small enterprises operating in Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia
Kiros, Yitbarek Weldegerima - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 12 (2023) 1, pp. 1-9
Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) reach a large number of poor people who are not served by formal financial …) financed by Microfinance Institutions by taking lender characteristics. Primary data was collected using questionnaires and … annual reports and financial statements of Microfinance institutions and other institutions. Descriptive analysis as well as …
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Poverty alleviation and microfinance for the economy of Pakistan: A case study of Khushhali Bank in Sargodha
Tasos, Stylianou; Amjad, Muhammad Ijaz; Awan, Masood Sarwar - In: Economies 8 (2020) 3, pp. 1-18
. Perhaps no one would argue against the notion that microfinance can be a very useful apparatus in human, social, economic …, political and national development. Microfinance has been established to fill the gap of a missing credit market for the poor … elimination throughout the world. In this study, we investigate the impact of microfinance on poverty alleviation for the economy …
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Role of social capital and social value creation in augmenting sustainable performance of social enterprises: Moderating role of social innovation
Khan, Samar Hayat; Yasir, Muhammad; Shah, Hassan Ahmed; … - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 15 (2021) 1, pp. 118-137
the social enterprises' sustainable performance in the developing economies like Pakistan. The main objective of this … of the 57 social enterprises working in Pakistan. Correlation analysis, regression analysis and Normal test theory was …
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Inter-organizational relationships and perceived innovation performance: The moderating role of social capital and mediating role of knowledge sharing
Shuja, Aleema; Shuja, Aleena - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 17 (2023) 1, pp. 162-190
working in ICT enterprises in Pakistan. The study findings based on Process Hayes Macro regression analysis using SPSS stated …
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Social farming: a proposal to explore the effects of structural and relational variables on social farm results
Bassi, Ivana; Nassivera, Federico; Piani, Lucia - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 4 (2016) 13, pp. 1-13
Social farming is gaining increasing attention from multiple stakeholders in Europe because it can generate several socioeconomic benefits, for farming households too. The research-which is part of a project carried out by a healthcare authority in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in order to...
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The Nigeria wealth distribution and health seeking behaviour: Evidence from the 2012 national HIV/AIDS and reproductive health survey
Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi F.; Bamgboye, Elijah A.; Yusuf, … - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 5, pp. 1-10
Background: Recently, Nigeria emerged as the largest economy in Africa and the 26th in the world. However, a pertinent question is how this new economic status has impacted on the wealth and health of her citizens. There is a dearth of empirical study on the wealth distribution in Nigeria which...
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Development of a cell formation heuristic by considering realistic data using principal component analysis and Taguchi's method
Kumar, Shailendra; Sharma, Rajiv Kumar - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering International 11 (2015), pp. 87-100
Over the last four decades of research, numerous cell formation algorithms have been developed and tested, still this research remains of interest to this day. Appropriate manufacturing cells formation is the first step in designing a cellular manufacturing system. In cellular manufacturing,...
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