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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Agenda-Setting in Russian Media

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2020
This article examines agenda-setting theory. I compare the results of Levada Center surveys on the most memorable issues of the month with the number of publications on those issues in the Russian press from 2014 to 2016.
Anastasia Kazun
doaj   +2 more sources

PATERNITY LEAVE: FIRST RESULTS OF INTRODUCTION IN MOLDOVA

open access: yesEconomy and Sociology, 2022
Parental leave policies are important instruments regulating how the men’s and women’s concurrent role as parents and employees is valued and encouraged.
Inga Chistruga — Sînchevici
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The poverty risk of East and South-East Asian migrant households in Germany: The role of human capital, employment, and intermarriage

open access: yesJournal for Labour Market Research
Poverty is on the rise in Germany. Though there are studies on immigrant earnings and poverty in Germany as separate topics, Little attention has been paid to determining the factors that contribute to the poverty of immigrant households.
Tobias Wolbring, Eva Köhler, Eric Fong
doaj   +1 more source

Uncertainty, conventional behavior, and economic sociology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This paper addresses the problem of the conceptualization of social structure and its relationship to human agency in economic sociology. The background is provided by John Maynard Keynes's observations on the effects of uncertainty and conventional ...
Bibow, Jörg, Lewis, Paul, Runde, Jochen
core   +1 more source

Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dialogue, ethics, economy. The application of dialogue in management (in the context of business ethics in the German-speaking area)

open access: yesAnnales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017
The article names the conditions that a conversation has to fulfill in order to become a dialogue. The author undertakes to present the philosophy and ethics of dialogue, which were established based on the concept of dialogue.
Grzegorz Szulczewski
doaj   +1 more source

The Judicial Geography of Patent Litigation in Germany: Implications for the Institutionalization of the European Unified Patent Court

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) will be the pillar of a unified European patent enforcement system. Crucial to its success will be the harmonization of geographical variation in national jurisdictions.
Marius Zipf   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Facilitators and barriers to neighborhood social integration

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of community and belonging. Yet, most existing research centers on fostering close personal relationships within family and friend networks.
Joelle Fuchs   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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