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Stakeholder Valuing: A Process for Identifying the Interrelationships between Firm and Stakeholder Attributes
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2014-05)As firms are creating and recreating themselves as stakeholder corporations, tensions mount between a firm’s fiduciary duties to its shareholders and the broader responsibilities inherent in a stakeholder focus. Firms have ... -
How do Companies Invest in Corporate Social Responsibility? An Ordonomic Contribution for Empirical CSR Research
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2014-01)This paper takes both a conceptual and an empirical approach to answer the question as to how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be connected to the company‘s role as an agent of social value creation when it operates ... -
Understanding Cultural Difference Management through Charles Taylor’s Philosophy: Case Studies from the Food Processing Industry
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2015-04)In this paper, we use the work of the philosopher, Charles Taylor, to investigate the role of culture on internationalization decisions. Using parameters related to key constructs such as positive liberty, social ontology, ... -
Leasehold: An Institutional Framework for Understanding Nonprofit Governance in a Civil Society Context
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2015-09)Nonprofit organizations play a role in the creation of a society that is civil, and it is an important one that neither the state nor for-profit organizations undertake. This raises the question of governance and accountability, ... -
Nonprofit Governance, Organizational Purposiveness and Design
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The Rationality and Irrationality of Financing Green Start-Ups
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2015-07)Green start-ups contribute towards a transition to a more sustainable economy by developing sustainable and environmentally friendly innovation and bringing it to the market. Due to specific product/service characteristics, ... -
The Role of Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Sustainability Transitions: A Conceptual Synthesis against the Background of the Multi-Level Perspective
(MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2015-11)This paper conceptually synthesizes prior studies on sustainable entrepreneurship against the background of the multi-level perspective.It thereby relates separate streams of literature on sustainable entrepreneurship, ... -
Entrepreneurship as Facilitator for Sustainable Development? Editorial for the Special Issue “Advances in Sustainable EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship as Facilitator for Sustainable Development? Editorial for the Special Issue “Advances in Sustainable Entrepreneurship"
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Gender Inequality and Economic Development
(2015)This article attempts to analyze the effect of gender inequality on economic growth using the GMM dynamic panel for the five countries of the Great Maghreb during the period 1985-2011.The results of this study lead us to ... -
A Linguistic Examination of the CapitalCube™ Market Effect Variables
(Sciedu Press, 2016-05)Introduction: Linguistic variables and the nuanced market information they afford are critical to the efficient and effective functioning of market trading platforms. In this research, we report on our investigation of the ... -
Intellectual Structure of Accounting Research: A Historical Review on the Journal of Accounting Organization Society
(Sciedu Press, 2016-02)The The The Journal of Accounting Organization Society (AOS) focuses on the relationship between accounting and processes of Human behavior and organizational structure. In addition the journal aims to address all aspects ... -
Economics of beekeeping as pollination management practices adopted by farmers in Chitwan district of Nepal
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: When the natural pollinator’s declines, beekeeping can contribute to the pollination services, assuring crop yields, and can also be used to strengthen the livelihoods through commercialization to increase ... -
Food coping strategies in northern Ghana. A socio‑spatial analysis along the urban–rural continuum
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Food insecurity is a worrying challenge worldwide, with sub-Sahara Africa most affected. Literature reveals that in developing countries, food insecurity is a largely ‘‘managed process’’, meaning people are ... -
The effect of weakened resilience on food insecurity in protracted crisis: the case of South Sudan
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: This study aims to determine predictors of food insecurity in a typical setting where resilience of population is weakened as a result of protracted crises. South Sudan is used as a case study. The rationale ... -
Access to livelihood capitals and propensity for entrepreneurship amongst rice farmers in Ghana
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: This paper examines rice farmers’ access to livelihood capitals (natural, financial, physical, social and human) and the relationship and propensity for entrepreneurship capacities amongst rice farmers in the ... -
Plant breeding for organic agriculture: something new?
(BioMed Central, 2015)The role of both organic (OF) and conventional (CF) farming remains open to debate particularly when related to food security and climate change. Targeting plant breeding for OF can contribute to reduce its yield gaps ... -
Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: What are the key factors that contribute to household-level food security? What lessons can we learn from food secure households? What agricultural options and management strategies are likely to benefit ... -
Soil fertility status and wheat nutrient content in Vertisol cropping systems of central highlands of Ethiopia
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Land degradation reduces agricultural productivity and poses a serious threat on food security status of households. In Ethiopia, farmers have been using only urea and di-ammonium phosphate for more than 15 ... -
The interplay between household food security and wellbeing among small‑scale farmers in the context of rapid agrarian change in India
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Small-scale agriculture, government entitlements, and livelihood opportunities offered by rapid economic growth shape the food security and wellbeing of people in rural India. This paper analyses this ... -
Effect of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) grain conditions on occurrence of mycotoxin‑producing fungi
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Sorghum is a staple cereal crop that is well adapted to arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). It has a potential of assuring food security and livelihoods in the ASALs. The objective of this study was to determine ...
