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Surveys are a widely used tool to answer socio-economic research question across disciplines. However, data collection can face certain problems such as nonresponding units. For household and population surveys, a large body of literature about the effects of nonresponse exist but only less is...
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development economics: the expansion of firms' export destinations across space and time (chapter 1), the extension of structural …
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The approach to water management worldwide is currently in transition, with a shift evident from purely centralised … socio-technical approach to implementation is vital, if RWH in the UK is to transition from novel to mainstream. …
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thesis is the transition of the manufacturing industry in the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg. After reunification … with West Berlin provides information about the current state in the transition process.The data used in this study is … survey for the years from 1991 to 2000.The thesis pays special attention to the role of exports for the development of plants …
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Given the massive costs of systemic transition in Poland, and given the insufficiency of public social policy, the …
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The first chapter of this dissertation considers the complexity of contracts to be determined bytransacting partners based on their exposure to the opportunistic behavior of theother. A transaction cost economics model generates the hypothesis that buyer andseller relationship-specific...
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policy play in transition countries in attracting FDI, (2) what influence does public policy in transition countries have on … answering the research questions above.(1): Political determinants are of key importance of the inflow for FDI into transition … determinants for transition countries are privatization, EU integration, internal political stability, property law, regional …
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The objective of this research is to characterise the factors influencing Open Source Software(OSS) adoption decisions in South African organisations. OSS is used extensively throughout theworld, but there is a large amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding decisions to adoptOSS. The...
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This thesis contains five chapters dealing with different aspects of the social relations of aquaculture development in … significance of different forms of aquaculture development. Chapter 1 compares the impacts associated with projects intended to …, and examines complementarities between the two forms of development. It finds that the latter form of aquaculture …
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in which FDI policies have played a role in economic development strategies of El Salvador and Nicaragua. This research …
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