Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the feasibility of adopting a market‐based land use model, Transfer of Development Rights (TDR), which is very popular in America and other countries as a positive land use control mechanism for conservation, in an evolving socialist land...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine differences in property institutions in the USA and India and their effects on agricultural productivity. Design/methodology/approach This paper undertakes a case study of industrial organization of agriculture, comparing agricultural development...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the medium‐term tenure option, in capital valuation terms, through an empirical study of 232 households in 39 tenement properties in Barkinsalle and Saukakahuta, two neighborhoods of Minna, Nigeria widely associated with poor households....

Argues that the serious environmental degradation occurring in two “low island” Pacific states, Kiribati and Tuvalu, can be directly attributed to the lack of allocation of rights of access to, or the lack of exclusion of non rights‐holders from, common property resources. A...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the dynamic relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth and domestic investment in Korea for the period 1985‐1999. By employing a vector autoregression model and the innovations accounting techniques, we explore dynamic...

Purpose – Aims to analyze the process of internationalization of multinational corporations from emerging economies, and more broadly test the investment development path (IDP) hypothesis for Egypt. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of data analysis and company case studies to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the key characteristics of the post‐investment relationship between the venture capital firm and its investee companies. Design/methodology/approach – The research is a case study of a major UK venture capital firm using qualitative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the current economic crisis and to highlight the importance of the counter‐party credit risk, which was surprisingly neglected by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in its proposed enhancements to the Basel II...

Purpose – In the stakeholder marketing literature, there have been calls by several researchers to expand the stakeholder domain to incorporate a broader array of stakeholders. In developing this argument in this paper the authors aim to explore a set of stakeholder relationships in an...

For over two hundred years, our nation’s legal system has been based on the “American Rule” ‐ with each party bearing its own litigation costs. As the Supreme Court noted in 1975, this distinctly American tradition is “deeply rooted in our history and in congressional policy, and it is...