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The Gains from Right to Rent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper calculates savings from renting compared with owning a house purchased at the peak housing bubble years of 2006 or 2007 in 16 major metropolitan areas.
Dean Baker, Hye Jin Rho
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Institutional Entrepreneurship and Work for Enhanced Sustainability at the Base of the Pyramid

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Promoting sustainability at the base of the pyramid (BoP) often falls short of inclusive development due to informal and fragmented institutions, creating institutional voids. Although institutions are critical in BoP settings, there is limited clarity on how institutional mechanisms can address sustainability challenges in low‐income contexts
Nikolas K. Kelling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New nomads: the dispossession of the consumer in social housing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
With the advent of flexible tenancies, marketised rents, the abolition of a consumer-focused regulator and the disbanding of the National Tenant Voice, three decades of efforts to induce consumer pressure in the English social housing sector have been ...
Bradley, Q
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Strategic Marketing Tensions in Sustainable Business Models: A Conceptual Approach Through Customer Value Propositions and Stewardship

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable business models (SBMs) inherently involve tensions, which are contradictory or misaligned demands that companies must consider simultaneously. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the relevance and linkage of these tensions to strategic marketing considerations, including positioning, competitiveness, differentiation,
Päivi Petänen
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Affecting the Development of Land Rental Markets in China A Case Study for Puding County, Guizhou Province [PDF]

open access: yes
The development of land rental markets can enhance agricultural productivity and equity by facilitating transfers of land to more productive farmers and facilitating the participation in the non-farm economy of less productive farmers.
Heerink, Nico, Tu, Qin, Xing, Li
core   +1 more source

The importance of accounting for unobserved heterogeneity, state-dependence and differences in residual variances across groups: An application to Irish Farmers land market participation decisions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
working paperLand is an essential input into agricultural production. A grwoing literature is concerned with the factors influencing farmers’ land market participation decisions in developing countries, with developed countries largely ignored. Current
Hanrahan, Kevin, O'Neill, Stephen
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Eco‐Innovation: Drivers and Obstacles for Agriculture Firms in a Developing Country

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable agriculture is becoming increasingly vital for food security and economic growth, particularly as the agricultural sector grapples with challenges posed by climate change. This study, grounded in the environmental innovation theory, resource‐based view, and dynamic capabilities approach, uses logistic and multinomial logistic ...
Nelyda Campos‐Requena   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Distributed Economics-based Infrastructure for Utility Computing

open access: yes, 2004
Existing attempts at utility computing revolve around two approaches. The first consists of proprietary solutions involving renting time on dedicated utility computing machines.
Kiyanclar, Nadir   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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