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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Informational Cascades Elicit Private Information [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
We introduce cheap talk in a dynamic investment model with information externalities. We first show how social learning adversely affects the credibility of cheap talk messages. Next, we show how an informational cascade makes truth‐telling incentive compatible. A separating equilibrium only exists for high‐surplus projects.
Gossner, Olivier, Melissas, Nicholas
openaire   +7 more sources

Informality as Structure or Agency? Exploring Shed Housing in the UK as Informal Practice

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2019
Recent attention to the phenomenon of ‘beds in sheds’—outbuildings used illegally for residential accommodation—suggests that shelter informality is increasing in the UK.
M. Lombard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Political Informality: Deals, Trust Networks, and the Negotiation of Value in the Urban Realm

open access: yesJournal of Development Studies, 2019
This article develops a conceptual framework for analysing political informality, before going on to explore it through a discussion of urban politics in Kampala, Uganda.
T. Goodfellow
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does ESG Matter for Unlisted Companies in the Agri‐Food Industry? Evidence From Japan's Unlisted Agri‐Food Companies

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity

open access: yesEcology and Society
Informality is a distinguishing characteristic of cities in the Global South and is strongly associated with urban inequality. Yet, in pursuing resilience, urban resilience strategies and planning have yet to grapple with the role of informality in ...
Hallie Eakin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction: re-spatialising urban informality: reconsidering the spatial politics of street work in the global South

open access: yesIDPR. International Development Planning Review, 2019
Introduction: re-spatialising urban informality : reconsidering the spatial politics of street work in the global ...
Ilda Lindell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing Haitian Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Aflatoxin‐Compliant Peanut Butter in the Informal Market

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the Governance of Household Water Supply in Bujumbura: Analysing Informality through a Just City Lens

open access: yesPlaNext, 2017
In her 2010 book, The Just City, Susan Fainstein evaluates justice in her case-study cities (Amsterdam, New York and London) though a three dimensional analysis of justice (Equity, Diversity and Democracy).
Anaïs De Keijser
doaj   +1 more source

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