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Challenges to Farm Produce Marketing: A Model of Bargaining between Farmers and Middlemen under Risk

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2017
We present a model of bargaining between farmers and middlemen in which long-term risk considerations by farmers constrain their ability to engage in hard bargaining.
Ram Ranjan
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From Disruption to Stabilization: A Functional Governance Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition in Montenegro

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global climate ambitions intensify, the key challenge lies not in setting renewable energy targets but in designing governance systems that can translate them into lasting transformation. The transition management literature has advanced a valuable research agenda for initiating change through niche innovations and participatory arenas in ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea, Igor Luksic, Bojana Boskovic   +2 more
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Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
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Low‐Carbon Optimal Scheduling of Multiple Virtual Power Plants Based on Asymmetric Nash Bargaining

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To effectively investigate the structural discrepancies and complementary energy characteristics among multiple virtual power plants (VPPs), and to improve the economic efficiency, low‐carbon performance, and operational reliability of the multi‐agent system, this paper proposes a low‐carbon collaborative optimal operation strategy for ...
Junjie Qiu, Min Liu, Yang Peng, Haiqiang Zhao, Yuanda Wu, Yongyuan Tian   +5 more
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Sustainable Work and Employment in Social Care: New Challenges, New Priorities

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human Resource Management (HRM) research focused on social care is sparse. This gap is surprising given the scale of the social care workforce in many countries, its vital role in meeting the increasingly complex needs of vulnerable community groups, and the persistent challenges in recruiting and retaining staff.
Ian Kessler, Aoife M. McDermott, Lander Vermeerbergen, Valeria Pulignano, Brian Harney   +4 more
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Determinants of Employee Victory in Telecommuting Labor Disputes: A Configurational Approach

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid expansion of telecommuting during the COVID‐19 pandemic created novel disputes over remote‐work conditions that existing laws did not clearly regulate. This study investigates the configurational determinants of employee victory in these disputes. Drawing on resource‐based and institutional theories of litigation outcomes, we propose
Zhenwu Jiang, Yuhua Xie, Mingwei Liu, Yiming Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Collective Bargaining, Advisory Arbitration and Legal Intervention: The 1995 Labour Relations Act as a Product of Criticism of the 1956 Labour Relations Act

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
The Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (hereafter the 1995 LRA) is a product of criticism of the Labour Relations Act 28 of 1956 (hereafter the 1956 LRA).
Wilhelmina Germishuys-Burchell
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Material ESG Performance and Bid Premium in Merger and Acquisition Deals

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the firm‐level and country‐level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on bid premiums in cross‐border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. We document considerable variations in bid premiums. Higher carbon emissions are associated with higher bid premiums, suggesting that acquirers may perceive ...
Ndubuisi Ezenwa, Ibrahim Ayoade Adekunle, Robin Maialeh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent judicial rulings on collective bargaining

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
This study aims to take a look at the most outstanding interpretative questions of the current regulation of collective bargaining, analysing the criteria that has been given to them by the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. From this analysis it can be
Jesús Cruz Villalón
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Risk of Secondary Extinction in the Asian Songbird Trade, as Exemplified by the Selling of Crested Jayshrikes as Master Birds

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
The Asian Songbird Crises negatively affects so‐called master birds, species that are used to increase the song complexity of competitive songbirds. We assessed the trade in a master bird, the crested jayshrike, in Indonesia before and after its legal protection.
Vincent Nijman, Abdullah Abdullah, Ahmad Ardiansyah, Jessica Chavez, Katherine Hedger, Rifqi Hendrik, Abdullah Langgeng, K. Anne‐Isola Nekaris, I. Nyoman Aji Duranegara Payuse, Erly Sintya, Desak Ketut Tristiana Sukmadewi, Marco Campera   +11 more
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