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ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Competitive intelligence and network mapping of interfirm alliances [PDF]
In many industries, networks, rather than firms, have become the organizing level at which firms compete with each other. One role of competitive intelligence is to help firms understand their global environment as well as master their position in a ...
Brigitte GAY (LEREPS-GRES & Toulouse Business School)
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Social Networks, Personalized Advertising, and Privacy Controls [PDF]
This paper investigates how internet users' perception of control over their personal information affects how likely they are to click on online advertising.
Tucker, Catherine - Sloan School of Business, MIT
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ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi +2 more
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Research Highlights was a newsletter highlighting the research being done at the Boston University School of Management (Questrom School of Business)
Boston University School of Management
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Investment behaviors of the key actors in capitalism: when geography matters [PDF]
The article investigates the geography of finance via an analysis of the investment behavior of large international equity investors. The main argument is based on the importance of financial markets and capital flows and on the central role played in ...
Claude DUPUY (GREThA) +1 more
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Modeling the strategic trading of electricity assets [PDF]
We analyze how strategic asset trading can be used to gain competitive advantage. In the case of electricity markets, companies seek to improve the value of their generating portfolios by acquiring, or selling, power plants.
Derek W. Bunn +2 more
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Business school techspectations Technology in the daily lives and educational experiences of business students [PDF]
Business School Techspectations is the second in a series of reports based on research by the DCU Leadership, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre (LInK) at DCU Business School.
Alexopoulos, Angelos, Lynn, Theo
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Mutuality talk in a family-owned multinational: anthropological categories & critical analyses of corporate ethicizing [PDF]
This article draws on work carried out as part of a collaboration between an elite business school and a family-owned multinational corporation, concerned with promoting ‘mutuality in business’ as a new frontier of responsible capitalism.
Dolan, Catherine, Gilbert, Paul Robert
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