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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
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Offshoring to Promote the Internationalization of Family Firms

Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, 2017
This paper analyses the impact of sourcing abroad on exporting in the case of Spanish manufacturing firms that are family-owned. Sourcing abroad can be a channel that places the firm in a better position to export, not only because it increases the ...
Fernando Merino
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Family involvement and firms’ establishment mode choice in foreign markets [PDF]

, 2016
Extant literature on foreign entry increasingly recognizes firms’ heterogeneity as a potential reason for inconsistency in results on the establishment mode choice, i.e.
A Slangen, Alessandro Minichilli, Andrea Boellis, B Kogut, BS Reiche, C Ai, C Koropp, C Singla, CH Furfine, D Cumming, D Dow, D Dow, D Miller, D Miller, D Miller, DS Siegel, E Maitland, ER Banalieva, G Hoetker, J Hair, JF Hennart, JF Hennart, JH Chua, JJ Reuer, JL Arregle, KD Brouthers, KD Brouthers, KD Brouthers, L Caprio, L Tihanyi, LR Gomez‐Mejia, Lucia Piscitello, M Bertrand, M Faccio, M Faccio, M Martynova, M Musteen, O Levy, O Shenkar, P Berrone, P Padmanabhan, PC Patel, PD Allison, R La Porta, R Strange, RC Anderson, RC Anderson, S Malhotra, S Mariotti, S Mariotti, S Zaheer, Sergio Mariotti, T Menon, V Nocke, VM Strike, Z Fernández   +55 more
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Open Innovation in Family-Owned Firms

Italian Economic Journal
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of family ownership on firms’ adoption of open innovation strategies. Using data from the VIII UniCredit “Survey on small and medium-sized enterprises”, we find that family ownership is positively and significantly associated with the adoption of open innovation models by firms.
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Giving and receiving help in three contexts as predictors of alcohol outcomes in a longitudinal study of sober living house residents

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Although peer support is central to the social model approach emphasized in sober living houses (SLHs), no longitudinal studies have examined helping among SLH residents. This longitudinal study examined benefits of helping in three contexts among SLH residents. Data were from 205 participants entering 28 SLHs across 2021–2023. Interviews were
Sarah E. Zemore, Elizabeth Mahoney, Meenakshi S. Subbaraman, Amy A. Mericle, Douglas L. Polcin   +4 more
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Ownership dynamics and share pledging behavior in emerging markets: a zero-inflated model approach

Cogent Economics & Finance
This study examines how factors influencing zero pledging vary with different levels of pledging in family-owned firms. This study uses a zero-inflated beta model to differentiate the lack of opposition to pledge from the positive endorsement of pledge ...
V. Vijayagopal, M. Thenmozhi
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Attracting talent to family-owned businesses: The perceptions of MBA students [PDF]

This paper examines the perceptions that MBA students hold regarding family-owned businesses compared to non-family firms. The study is based on the assumption that attracting talent is critical not only for continuous competitive advantage, but also for
Ceja, Lucia, Tapies, Josep
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Racism and racial disparities in firearm violence: A scoping review

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firearm violence (i.e., interpersonal, police firearm violence) disproportionately affects racially minoritized communities. Researchers recently shifted their focus from race to racism to better understand the factors that contribute to racial disparities in firearm violence.
Daniel B. Lee, Lexie M. Contreras, Laney Rupp, Stephanie H. Cook, Marc A. Zimmerman, Patrick M. Carter, Katherine P. Theall, Riley Bennett, Julia M. Fleckman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

European guidelines from the EHTG and ESCP for Lynch syndrome: an updated third edition of the Mallorca guidelines based on gene and gender

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Recommendations for clinical and molecular identification of LS, surgical and endoscopic management of LS‐associated colorectal cancer and preventive measures for cancer were produced. The emphasis was on surgical and gastroenterological aspects of the cancer spectrum.
T. T. Seppälä, A. Latchford, I. Negoi, A. Sampaio Soares, R. Jimenez‐Rodriguez, L. Sánchez‐Guillén, D. G. Evans, N. Ryan, E. J. Crosbie, M. Dominguez‐Valentin, J. Burn, M. Kloor, M. von Knebel Doeberitz, F. J. B. van Duijnhoven, P. Quirke, J. R. Sampson, P. Møller, G. Möslein, on behalf of the European Hereditary Tumour Group (EHTG) and European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP)   +18 more
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