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The competency niche: An exploratory study
Dobrowolski, Zbysław; Drozdowski, Grzegorz; … - In: Risks 9 (2021) 11, pp. 1-11
In the era of a turbulent and less-predictable business environment, as confirmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability …
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Institutions or geography: What explains more to trade policy for developing nations?
Sarwarand, Saima; Siddiqi, M. Wasif - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 8 (2014) 3, pp. 640-661
confirming the importance of institutions and governance over geography in case of each trade policy proxy for developing nations …
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Cursed by no coast: How regional landlockedness affects income within countries
Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; Stadelmann, David - In: Economics Letters 181 (2019), pp. 70-73
We analyze whether landlocked regions are systematically poorer, using panel data for 1,527 regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014 and exploiting within-country-time variation. Lacking ocean access decreases regional GDP/capita by ≈13%. Specifically, coastal distance matters but not the length...
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Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa
Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - In: Review of Development Economics 26 (2022) 4, pp. 1883-1901
We investigate georeferenced household‐level data consisting of up to 128,609 individuals living in 11,261 localities across 17 coastal sub‐Saharan African countries over 20 years. We analyze the relevance of coastal proximity, measured by the geographic distance to harbors, as a predictor...
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The relative choice over destiny in a country's long-run economic growth and economic affluence
Tadele, Esubalew; Sirany, Teshome - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17
emphasis towards shaping a country's long-run economic growth than time-invariant exogenous attributes (like geography …
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Do geography and institutions affect entrepreneurs' future business plans? Insights from Greece
Rasvanis, Evangelos; Tselios, Vassilis - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 12 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21
It is widely known that both geography and institutions determine the location of an investment. However, little is … examines whether the 'first-' and 'second-nature' geography and institutions affect the plans of entrepreneurs to expand or … access, the natural environment, the agglomeration economies, the location of Greece and the local governance are ideal for …
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Green work-life balance: A new perspective for green HRM
Muster, Viola; Schrader, Ulf - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 2, pp. 140-156
environment, but also for the company and its employees by increasing, for example, work motivation and job retention. However …
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The Effects of Environmental Uncertainty, Computer Usage, and Management Accounting Systems on Small Business
Gul, Ferdinand A.; Glen, William; Huang, Alan Ruguang - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 2 (1993) 3, pp. 251-271
The motivation for this contingency-type study is based on the notion that prior studies on management accounting systems (MAS) has almost entirely focused on large business organizations and neglected consideration of the effects of contextual variables and MAS on organizational effectiveness...
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A human capital based growth model with environment and corruption
Ikazaki, Daisuke - In: Journal of Economic Structures 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
corruption to consider problems related to sustainable growth. In many growth models that incorporate the environment, it is …
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Prioritizing critical success factors for reverse logistics implementation using fuzzy-TOPSIS methodology
Agrawal, Saurabh; Singh, Rajesh K.; Murtaza, Qasim - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering International 12 (2016), pp. 15-27
Electronics industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. In India also, there are high turnovers and growing demand of electronics product especially after post liberalization in early nineties. These products generate e-waste which has become big environmental issue....
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