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Beyond Resilience: Measuring the Livelihood Vulnerability of Commercial Livestock Farmers to Drought in South Africa

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change continues to increase the frequency and intensity of events, threatening agricultural production, farmers' livelihoods and the achievement of SDGs 1 and 2 (No Poverty and Zero Hunger). This study examined the effect of agricultural drought on the livelihood vulnerability of commercial livestock farmers in the Northern Cape ...
Hanipher Mili, Yonas T. Bahta, Frikkie Mare, H. N. van Niekerk, Stephen Nyaki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Profit efficiency of smallholder dairy production systems: Empirical evidence from Northern Uganda. [PDF]

PLoS One
Oyoo PO, Okwera S, Okello DM, Mugonola B.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Group-wise herding behavior in financial markets: an agent-based modeling approach. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2014
Kim M, Kim M.
europepmc   +1 more source

“Touching the Tarmac”: Conjuring the Urban Frontier on a Remote Periphery

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropologists have demonstrated how the creation of land markets as “frontiers” for global capital requires practices of “conjuring”—the narrative construction of place as desirable for large‐scale investment. This article emphasizes the contingency of this conjuring process in an urbanizing Kenya where land‐selling companies have emerged to
Peter Lockwood
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Relationships Among Marketing Stimuli, Pleasure Emotion, Trust in Seller, and Impulsive Buying in Sports Livestreaming E-Commerce: Evidence from University Students in Eastern China. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Li X, Nam SB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Why theory matters for causal inference? Rethinking endogeneity in entrepreneurship research

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Endogeneity in entrepreneurship research is often treated as a statistical complication addressable through advanced econometric tools. This commentary argues that such an approach overlooks a deeper issue: endogeneity is conceptual before it is statistical.
Daniel Tzabbar
wiley   +1 more source

Methodology for investigating moderating relationships in cognitive biases within workplace decision-making. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Ohms B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Artificial intelligence and venture capital: Revisiting sourcing, selection, and nurturing activities

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Venture capital (VC) is an information‐intensive form of entrepreneurial finance conducted under extreme uncertainty. Investors must originate promising opportunities, select ventures with sparse and strategically disclosed information, and monitor and support firms after investment.
Gary Dushnitsky
wiley   +1 more source

The psychological toll of financial volatility: compulsive habits, gambling parallels, and social policy implications. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Dote-Pardo J, Quezada-Baier C, Espinosa-Jaramillo MT.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drifting to the top? The effects of category erraticism on status mobility in the U.S. venture capital industry

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We examine the effects of category erraticism, that is, having moved across socio‐cognitively distant industry categories over time, on status mobility. We argue that it is not the breadth of the categories that a firm spans or the overall distance among those categories, but whether its movement across categories forms a ...
Danyang Li, Michael Jensen
wiley   +1 more source