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Realising e‐government in the UK: rural and urban challenges

Choudrie, Jyoti; Weerakkody, Vishanth; Jones, Stephen - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 18 (2005) 5, pp. 568-585

Purpose – The considerable success achieved with information and communications technologies (ICTs) within the private sector has influenced various stakeholders (including the government) to link up public sector services with the internet revolution. This is being achieved by making...

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Race and gender discrimination in the labor market: an urban and rural sector analysis for Brazil

Loureiro, Paulo R.A.; Galrão Carneiro, Francisco; … - In: Journal of Economic Studies 31 (2004) 2, pp. 129-143

The article investigates the existence of discrimination in the urban and rural labor markets in Brazil. Tests the hypothesis that returns to education are different for black and white workers, male and female, in the urban and rural sectors. The methodology used allows for the decomposition of...

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Trends and risks in home health care

Rest, Klaus‐Dieter; Trautsamwieser, Andrea; Hirsch, … - In: Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain … 2 (2012) 1, pp. 34-53

Purpose – The number of care‐dependent people will rise in future. Therefore, it is important to support home health care (HHC) providers with suitable methods and information, especially in times of disasters. The purpose of this paper is to reveal potential threats that influence HHC and...

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Retailers and new product acceptance in India's base of pyramid (BoP) markets

Alur, Sivakumar; Schoormans, Jan P.L. - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 41 (2013) 3, pp. 189-200

Purpose – Retailers' new product acceptance in base of pyramid (BoP) markets is crucial to marketers in this segment. This paper seeks to develop propositions for research on factors that affect retailers in new product introduction. The propositions also aim to make a distinction between...

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Beyond the market/non‐market divide: a total social organisation of labour perspective

Williams, Colin C. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) 6, pp. 402-414

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to move beyond the market/non‐market divide and to recognise the plurality of labour practices in societies by adopting a variant of what Glucksmann calls “a total social organisation of labour” approach. Design/methodology/approach – To transcend the...

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Multidimensional poverty assessment: applying the capability approach

Ele‐Ojo Ataguba, John; Eme Ichoku, Hyacinth; Fonta, … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 331-354

used in data collection from about 410 households across urban and rural localities. The counting and FGT methodologies …

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Bank branch efficiency evaluation by means of least absolute deviations and DEA

Tsolas, Ioannis E.; Giokas, Dimitris I. - In: Managerial Finance 38 (2012) 8, pp. 768-785

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of individual branches of a large Greek bank through the application of both goal programming (GP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a particular least absolute deviations (LAD)...

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Internationalization strategies selected by established rural and urban SMEs

Westhead, Paul; Ucbasaran, Deniz; Binks, Martin - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 11 (2004) 1, pp. 8-22

This study explores whether there are differences between established “rural” and “urban” SMEs with regard to the decision to sell goods or services abroad. Several hypotheses were formulated and tested. In 1990/1991, survey responses were gathered from 621 independent businesses located...

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Financial inclusion through Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana in India

Sharma, Neha; Goyal, Ruchi - In: Economics & finance notes 8 (2019) 1, pp. 33-42

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The impact of domestic and international commodity price volatility on agricultural income instability: Ghana, Vietnam and Peru

Rapsomanikis, George; Sarris, Alexander - 2006

The extent to which commodity price volatility affects the income of producing households and their vulnerability to … article focuses on estimating agricultural income uncertainties for a number of different household types in Ghana, Vietnam … and nonmarket uncertainties significantly affect the variability of agricultural income of households in these countries …

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