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How Signifying Practices Constitute Food (In)security The Case of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Shim, David - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

This paper argues that the question of food (in)security in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not necessarily indicative of the country’s actual nutritional conditions but is rather constituted through meaning-making behavior—signifying practices—predominantly on the part of...

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Emergence and Functionality of Organizational Routines An Individualistic Approach

Witt, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009

The functionality of organizational routines, i.e. the factual value for accomplishing their purposes, is an important constraint on the capabilities an organization can bring to bear on its operations. Often falling short of its potential, the actual make-up of organizational routines invites...

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Barriers of Knowledge Sharing Among Employees: The Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia

Assefa, Temtim; Garfield, Monica; Meshesha, Million - In: Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) 12 (2013) 02, pp. 1350014-1

transactions. Banks process and use information to run their business. Knowledge is one of the strategic resources that commercial … banks use to increase their internal efficiency and to operate competitively. Knowledge-sharing barriers hinder the smooth … flow of knowledge among employees which often results in negative consequences such as customer dissatisfaction, low …

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Managing sustainability with the error correction model

Aleksander JaneÅ¡ - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 5 (2013) 2, pp. 125-139

The aim of our paper is to represent the intermediate research results of the case study of the Ydria Motors LL Company which produces semi products for household appliances. The company is a part of the ebmpapst international group and is opting for the ambitious goal of becoming the competency...

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Role of knowledge in the adoption of new agricultural technologies: an approach and an application

Jabbar, M.A.; Saleem, M.A. Mohamed; Gebreselassie, Solomon - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 2 (2003) 3/4, pp. 312-327

appropriate. The sets of factors that significantly influenced decisions to acquire knowledge about BBM, to adopt and then to use …

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The cluster model: whether and what developing countries should learn from advanced countries

Molina-Morales, F. Xavier; Giuliani, Elisa - In: International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems 2 (2012) 3/4, pp. 219-232

The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential use of the cluster model in the context of developing countries. Although we know this is by no means a new issue, we are convinced that some contributions can still be added to the discussion. Particularly, we focus on two questions: the first...

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A human agency approach to the economics of international trade

Yu, Fu-Lai Tony - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 1 (2009) 1/2, pp. 22-36

Scholars in Austrian economics have amply criticised many aspects of neoclassical economics including methodology, development economics, monetary theory, public finance and comparative economic systems. Surprisingly, little has been said on the pure theory of international trade. This paper...

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Household recycling in Cyprus: attitudes, barriers and behaviour

Hadjimanolis, Athanasios - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 9 (2013) 2, pp. 291-306

stage. These factors include socio-demographic variables, environmental attitudes and knowledge, and especially policy …

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Entrepreneurship, e-finance and mobile banking

Ratten, Vanessa - In: International Journal of Electronic Finance 6 (2012) 1, pp. 1-12

inclination and learning tendency will determine how they respond to marketing and knowledge about mobile banking. The practical …

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Commercial diplomacy: an integrative framework

Naray, Olivier - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 1 (2012) 2, pp. 119-133

capital and networks, knowledge and influence. The input-process-output framework may invite research to develop constructs …

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