As the world's population continues to grow, natural ingredients play a crucial role in feeding it. Providing food for a growing global population presents its own set of challenges, particularly when considering the importance of sustainability. The advancement of emerging technologies will...

Tourism growth drives considerable shifts in environmental quality levels and natural resource exploitation patterns. This study aims to develop a theoretical perspective for the context and ‘functionality’ of ‘smart’ technologies that will remove the existing barriers of traditional...

In our modern world, the intensity of economic activities dominates the linkages between the natural environment and the economic system. By nature, organizations and entrepreneurs strive to gain more and advance their position in terms of competitiveness, frequently, within volatile market...

Global value chains (GVCs) are a driver of economic transformation and growth of local economies. They are a channel for the dissemination of technological knowledge, entrepreneurial culture and innovation capacity. Global leaders can create opportunities for local producers to improve their...

Using nationally representative household-level panel data from India, we study status-signalling through conspicuous consumption across castes, religions and economic classes. Conditional on permanent income, Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) spend more, while Muslims and...

The study assesses the role of globalization-fuelled regionalization policies on financial allocation efficiency in four economic and monetary regions in Africa for the period 1980 to 2008. Banking system and financial system efficiency proxies are used as dependent variables whereas seven...

Maffeo Pantaleoni’s concepts of “political prices” and “economic prices” explore institutional change and the dynamics of rent-seeking society. He distinguishes between “objective” discriminations, which conform to the reproductive logic of an institution, and those that are...

Цел на изследването е да се определят основните ползи и рискове за развитие на иновационния потенциал на българските предприятия и региони от участието им в...

In this paper we develop and apply a stochastic multistage dynamic cooperative game for managing transboundary water resources, within the water-food-energy nexus framework, under climate uncertainty. The mathematical model is solved for the non-cooperative and cooperative (Stackelberg...

Entrepreneurship in developing countries plays a pivotal role in fostering economic growth, reducing poverty, and creating jobs. However, the process of establishing and sustaining businesses in these regions is fraught with numerous challenges, including limited access to capital, inadequate...