¿Es posible mejorar la calidad de la educación en América Latina y el Caribe? Según los expertos autores de estas páginas, hay soluciones pero no atajos: se trata de comenzar de cero y de apuntalar los aprendizajes sobre todo en los niveles preescolar y primario. Este volumen ofrece una...

There is a lack of knowledge on how corporations in Asia develop strategies, organize their work processes and deal with competition. Western managers and business students need to know more about Asian corporations and their management styles. Learning about Asia, however, has always been a...

Different are the patterns adopted by the firms to sustain innovation and growth, by considering at the same time the need to increase their productivity. The replication of organizational models represents one of the most adopted pathways, as highlighted by a recent research conducted on a...

Different streams of research has recently highlighted the fact that worldwide customers are pursuing a new vision of health; it goes far beyond the prevention and cure of illnesses to include spiritual, emotional, cultural, educational, environmental and ethical dimensions. Nowadays most...

«Soft» innovations are strongly emerging in modern competitive arenas in the form of dematerialization of the offering system. Thanks to the use of services, de-materialization aims to make mass production processes evolve, in order to make them suitable to face competitive environment...

This paper presents the results of a research project financed by the Chamber of commerce and industry of Slovenia. The main purpose of the project was to propose a model for useful suggestions management, including concrete suggestions for businesses. This is based on (a) an in-depth literature...

The role of social relationships in economic development has been emphasized for a long time in local development literature. However, there is yet no synthetic framework to analyse the various relationships between economic and sociological phenomena. Recent works of the social capital...

The profiles in this document are summaries of 12 agencies' experiences with using data and working with Strategic Data Project (SDP) and Education Pioneers (EP) fellows.

Contract farming is seen as one of the measures to facilitate participation of farmers in commercial agriculture, adding more value to agricultural products. Vietnam, however, shows mixed evidence on the well-known advantages of contract farming to small farmers such as reduced cost of accessing...