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The social footprint of globalization : towards the introduction of strategic industries in quantitative trade models

Colantone, Italo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Stanig, Piero - 2024

We argue that our understanding of industrial policy in the presence of `strategic' industries that exert positive externalities on the national economy may benefit from an extension of quantitative general equilibrium trade models making the extent and pattern of trade-induced reallocations...

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Crash risk connectedness in commodity markets

Iqbal, Najaf; Naeem, Muhammad Abubakr; Sitara Karim; … - In: The European journal of finance 30 (2024) 11, pp. 1270-1294

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An empirical examination of the stability of the alliance of “a company+farmers”

Fu, Shaoling; Lin, Jiabao; Sun, Liangyuan - In: Chinese Management Studies 7 (2013) 3, pp. 382-402

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explain the stability of the alliance of “a company+farmers” from the perspective of farmers. Design/methodology/approach – Based on 462 usable data collected through survey, structural equation modeling (SEM) technology was employed to examine...

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Exploring comparative international accounting history

Carnegie, Garry D.; Napier, Christopher J. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 15 (2002) 5, pp. 689-718

Accounting historians have long recognised accounting’s international scope but have typically concentrated their research endeavours on region‐ or country‐specific studies, or on investigating the diffusion of accounting ideas, techniques and institutions from one country to others. Much...

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Agroecology accounting: biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods from the margins

Lanka, Sanjay V.; Khadaroo, Iqbal; Böhm, Steffen - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30 (2017) 7, pp. 1592-1613

to producer value chains while providing subsidies for the inputs of industrial agriculture. Originality/value There have … smallholder farmers due to the need to purchase the inputs of industrial agriculture supported by government subsidies. This study … extends the field of accounting for biodiversity into agriculture using the science of agroecology to explain the role played …

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Employee representation on health and safety in small enterprises

Walters, David - In: Employee Relations 20 (1998) 2, pp. 164-179

agriculture and discusses the scheme as a means of improving the health and safety performance of the small enterprises typical of …

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HR incentives and gun‐toting guerillas

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 16 (2008) 6, pp. 14-16

Purpose – The paper examines the effect that weak enforcement of property rights has on the HR practices of firms operating in a hostile business environment. Design/methodology/approach – Through a case study of a workers' co‐operative named Cofudeco, supplying a farm named Hacienda...

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From agriculture to ecoculture

Godet, Michel - In: Foresight 2 (2000) 3, pp. 253-256

environment and food safety which only add to the problems of productivity or competitiveness. Logical agriculture (or integrated … assurance and certification systems to ensure sustainable development. In order to save the rural aspect of agriculture while … transition from agriculture to ecoculture thereby keeping and reinforcing the trust of the citizen‐consumer. …

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Biotechnology overview

Rowley, William R. - In: Foresight 4 (2002) 4, pp. 4-13

This paper describes the field of biotechnology and likely advances in health care, agricultural and other applications in industry, environmental science and energy over the next 15 years. The intent is to give those without a background in the life sciences a perspective of the broad scope of...

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Foresight – using scenarios to shape the future of agricultural research

Schwab, Patrick; Cerutti, Fabio; Hélène von Reibnitz, Ute - In: Foresight 5 (2003) 1, pp. 55-61

In the year 2000, the Agricultural Research Business Unit (ARBU) of the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture (FOA …

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