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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelos de governo, gerencialismo e avaliação institucional nas universidades

open access: yesRevista Portuguesa de Educação, 2003
In this article we intend to discuss the relation between different university’sgovernance models, institutional assessment and new managerialism. First,we analyse the meaning given to institutional assessment in the rationalitymodel, the ambiguity and ...
Rui A. Santiago   +4 more
doaj  

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ukrainian Higher Education as a Peripheral Laboratory of Neoliberal Transformation: an Ontology of Blandness vs/and Epistemology of Blindness

open access: yesФілософія освіти
Relevance. This article provides a philosophical and sociological analysis of the transformation of the Ukrainian higher education system, which the authors view as a “peripheral laboratory” of global neoliberal reforms.
Alexander Golikov, Serhiy Golikov
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying Consumer Tradeoffs Across Firm‐Level Strategic Positioning Dimensions: Evidence from US Craft Beer Consumers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Strategic positioning becomes increasingly important as markets mature, particularly in consumer‐facing industries that offer similar products, experiential cues, and values‐based messages. This study offers a conceptual model to examine the strategic positioning factors that motivate consumers to visit one local business over another before ...
Aaron J. Staples   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking Sixty Years of Silence

open access: yesJournal of Extreme Anthropology
Adopting an informal, autoethnographic approach, two British academics with working-class heritage reflect in this essay upon their repeated attempts to challenge criminology’s intellectual conventions and dominant ideological and institutional systems.
Steve Hall, Simon Winlow
doaj   +1 more source

El New Public Management y las políticas penales

open access: yesNuevo Foro Penal, 2016
This paper examines the increasing incorporation of New Public Management within penal policies. More precisely, it analyses the different techniques pertaining to this new managerial rationale and their implications on penality.
José Angel Brandariz García
doaj   +1 more source

Who Owns the Output? Authorship, Creative Labour, and Innovation Capability in Human‐AI Collaboration

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative AI is radically transforming how creative authorship is understood, attributed, and governed across the world’s cultural and creative industries. As AI systems increasingly produce outputs that organisations and audiences recognise as creative, foundational assumptions about who authors creative work, who receives credit for it, and
Ololade A. Shonubi
wiley   +1 more source

Constraining Innovation: A critical discourse analysis of power and assessment policy in higher education

open access: yesJournal of Learning Development in Higher Education
In this study, I examine how university assessment policies constrain pedagogical innovation. Using Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), I analysed policy documents from five UK universities to identify dominant discursive patterns influencing
David Yarwood
doaj   +1 more source

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