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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Corporate Security Responsibility: Towards a Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Research Agenda [PDF]
, 2007 The political debate about the role of business in armed conflicts has increasingly raised expectations as to governance contributions by private corporations in the fields of conflict prevention, peace-keeping and postconflict peace-building.
Klaus Dieter Wolf +5 more
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The Private Security Companies;An Overviewon Typology Approaches
Geopolitic and Geostrategic Intelligence, 2019 Several categorization attempts were proposed researchers to better understand the causes, dynamics and the consequences of the emergence of broad market Military services.
M. S. DJEMAL
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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PRIVATE SECURITY ACTORS IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF NIGER DELTA & NORTH-EASTERN NIGERIA IN WEST AFRICA.
, 2021 Africa is still seen as a place of Insecurity. This insecurity has led to a parallel rise in Private security activities on the continent. Their emergence raises a plethora of logical concerns and even some scholars have opined that they challenge the ...
Ofosu-Atuahene, Benjamin
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Import Wheat Tenders and the Effects of the Russian Invasion
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Risk and volatility for many commodities escalated sharply following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, creating numerous uncertainties for trading firms and importers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the bidding behavior in Egyptian wheat import tenders in the pre‐ and post‐invasion periods.
William W. Wilson +2 more
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Supervision Without Vision: Risk Governance and PMSCs
Utrecht Law Review, 2012 In the past two decades, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have become important actors in the international sphere, in armed conflict as well as in law enforcement.
Lucas Roorda
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi +2 more
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Privateers in Australia’s conflict and disaster zones [PDF]
, 2015 The private security industry has become an established component in the conflict and disaster zones where the Australian Government operates and looks set to be an enduring feature of the security landscape.
James Brown
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UN Use of Private Military and Security Companies [PDF]
, 2011 Although subject to little discussion, the UN has increasingly paid private military and security companies (PMSCs) for a range of services in the areas of humanitarian affairs, peacebuilding and development.
Gilje Østensen, Åse
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