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, 2014 Farmer business schools help enhance farmer capacity to participate in and benefit from agricultural market chains. It builds on the group-based experiential learning mode of farmer field schools, while shifting from a production- to a marketing-oriented
Gonsalves, Julian Francis
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Academic Programs of Training of Masters: Foreign Experience
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 The authors study international experience of implementing academic programs of Master training. Criteria for assessing the quality of educational services are structured as an institutional framework for the formation of academic programs abroad.
Nadezhda Viktorovna Mironenko +1 more
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Journal of Global Business Insights, 2018 The purpose of this study is to explore factors that reinforce or obstruct business schools in Pakistan to develop managerial knowledge, skills and work-based learning experiences of MBA students.
Obed Syed, Rosmini Omar, Arabella Bhutto
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma +2 more
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Business School Partnerships for Globalization [PDF]
Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2013 International partnerships are an essential tool to enable business schools to internationalize their activities. They can lead to improved research, better more internationally relevant teaching, provide staff with an international perspective, and help prepare students for careers in global business.
Dixon, R., Slanickova, D., Warwick, P.
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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S’orienter en école de commerce : goût de l’utile ou choix du raisonnable ?
Sociologies, 2012 This article questions higher education choices through the specific case of French business school students. Business schools represent the sector of the French higher education system that have known the fastest growth since the 1980s.
Marianne Blanchard
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None of your business: the case for a paradigm shift in teaching family business in UK business schools [PDF]
, 2010 Objectives: This conceptual paper argues that a new paradigm is needed for UK Business Schools which embraces an oft neglected, yet economically vital, stakeholder group, namely family business.Prior Work: Builds on discussions in the extent literature ...
Graham, Stuart +3 more
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