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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
[chapter]
2021
Food for All
Finally, the chapter makes a case for establishing FAO as a center of excellence to achieve a transformative, sustainable food system and to address its global public goods and SDGs functions, supported ...
The chapter outlines how FAO's adoption of a strategic framework and matrix management enabled it to meet the goals it has adopted for itself, toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly ...
of country data in order to make the best data available for use in analytic and decision support tools, with priority on the poorest countries, particularly those in Africa" (FAO 2008b, 8) . ...
doi:10.1093/oso/9780198755173.003.0010
fatcat:wz2lkx2hp5enrpk4h3j3j4tvfq
Special Report 4: China's Energy System Revolution
[chapter]
2020
Multi-scale Quantitative Diagenesis and Impacts on Heterogeneity of Carbonate Reservoir Rocks
Many state-owned coal companies are now defined as state-owned capital investment corporations. ...
large state-owned oil and gas corporations, making it difficult for private capital to gain access to upstream resources. ...
A complete 1+N policy system has been created for the new round of state-owned enterprise reform. "1" refers to the Guidance, which is the overall idea behind the policy system. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-40154-2_5
fatcat:nix2o3gdqjbupncnk45j666ksq
The influence of corruption on environmental sustainability in the developing economies of Southern Africa
2020
Heliyon
Moreover, in the short-run corruption was also found to worsen environmental sustainability for both regression models deployed using the two corruption indicators. ...
Firstly, the two indicators of corruption harmoniously show that corruption Granger causes the existing state of environmental sustainability in Southern African economies, and vice-versa. ...
, the lag orders of K are assumed to be homogenous for the complete cross-section of the panelised data under the survey. ...
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04387
pmid:32671271
pmcid:PMC7347650
fatcat:s6yxfwaiubclni6accgnjw6hpy
Corporate Strategy for Medium Scale Manufacturing Enterprises in Kenya
2019
International Journal of Management Excellence
In 54.5% of the firms, the business unit strategy is not adequate in light of competitive pressure (mean response 2.5) and the business unit strategy is not appropriate for exploiting opportunities in ...
This study therefore investigated corporate strategy and competitiveness of medium scale manufacturing enterprises in Kenya. Data was collected from 56 senior management staff. ...
MSMEs should therefore strive to identify the appropriate mix for sustainable efficiency and effectiveness in the market place. ...
doi:10.17722/ijme.v14i1.1127
fatcat:3vkly4n63jdb7nlqnkueszkcgq
'City-wide or City-blind'? An Analysis of Retrofit Practices in the UK Commercial Property Sector
[chapter]
2017
Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World
This should be closely aligned with clear low carbon visions for cities and with improved incentives for distributed energy schemes. ...
There are a number of emergent and niche financing models in the sector, including Energy Performance Contracting (EnPC). Specialist investment funds have also emerged. ...
Acknowledgements We would like to thank the interviewees for their valuable time and input into this research. ...
doi:10.1002/9781119007241.ch3
fatcat:klz77m6sx5gmfllrizmvhhwh4y
Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics
2003
Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics
This calls for a methodology that simultaneously permits the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and corrects for the sample selectivity that is intrinsic in the analysis of cooperative ...
The results indicate the need to explicitly consider the selectivity issue in the empirical analysis of cooperative R&D. ...
We then use the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method with US utility data to examine implications of selected cases of strategic behavior. ...
doi:10.1017/s0951007900006124
fatcat:wdt35iwlavb53fcjgm2ouzuqbu
Hidden Costs and the Role of Modularity: A Study on Offshoring Process Performance
2013
Academy of Management Proceedings
As competition for human capital intensifies, ensuring all qualified employees have access to career advancement opportunities is critical to company success. ...
Our study points to the important role of ...
in a Low-Carbon Society
Ying Sheng Yao, National Chi Nan University The Taiwanese scholars explored how the tourism industry works in a low-carbon society using real cases based on the new policies ...
doi:10.5465/ambpp.2013.16390abstract
fatcat:qgexsh5fkjawppojjmj744l7fu
International Business Research, Vol.2, No.1, January 2009
2009
International Business Research
programme in order to change the face of Oldham and to cement the borough's position in the drive for economic development. ...
Page 3 of the strategy document states the mission as follows:- Our Values, on which we will build a better future, will continue to shape everything we do:-We believe in good, safe, living environment ...
How to hold back Anti-dumping lawsuit Anti-dumping cases form the United States china has been faced with are concentrated in low-end products, including cold-rolled carbon steel, apple juice concentrate ...
doi:10.5539/ibr.v2n1p0
fatcat:f54zzfb7wndqrb57im7fswsgge
International Business Research, Vol.1, No.1, January 2008
2009
International Business Research
programme in order to change the face of Oldham and to cement the borough's position in the drive for economic development. ...
Page 3 of the strategy document states the mission as follows:- Our Values, on which we will build a better future, will continue to shape everything we do:-We believe in good, safe, living environment ...
How to hold back Anti-dumping lawsuit Anti-dumping cases form the United States china has been faced with are concentrated in low-end products, including cold-rolled carbon steel, apple juice concentrate ...
doi:10.5539/ibr.v1n1p0
fatcat:uhjtmeojwbdt5mp7l7ygkzkxtu
International Business Research, Vol.2, No.2, April 2009
2009
International Business Research
The scores were calculated using the non-parametric technique of Data Envelopment Analysis. ...
to corporate decision-making from the external of the enterprise extensively, highly efficiently and by low-cost, so as to play the roles of finance in the management and policy-making. ...
doi:10.5539/ibr.v2n2p0
fatcat:isoih6qysvh3fnncx7yo5kfvku
International Business Research, Vol.1, No.2, April 2008
2009
International Business Research
The scores were calculated using the non-parametric technique of Data Envelopment Analysis. ...
to corporate decision-making from the external of the enterprise extensively, highly efficiently and by low-cost, so as to play the roles of finance in the management and policy-making. ...
doi:10.5539/ibr.v1n2p0
fatcat:zzqovdo75fas7ainky5yywpqa4
Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics
2002
Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics
Thus, the implications of uncertainty for optimal policy are the opposite of standard multiplier uncertainty analysis. ...
These sources point to a new explanation which places neither the official distribution of the federal surplus to the states in the Spring of 1837 nor an international shock at the heart of the crisis, ...
The study examines the effect of the choice of benchmarking methods using Data Envelopment Analysis, Corrected Ordinary Least Squares, and Stochastic Frontier Analysis models. ...
doi:10.1017/s0951007900005519
fatcat:4dvarsjcnvhmpllinzpen2uuzq
How Do the Internal Variables of the Sport Konsumer Affect the Marketing of ports Events; Case Study Triathlon in the UK
2009
International Business Research
Acknowledgement The authors would like to thank Kamala Nathan for his comments and Rahimah for expert research assistantship. ...
For the purpose of data analysis, only those operating units making selling price decisions were included, and the importance measure was reverse scored for analysis. ...
All of these operating units made some use of product costs in decision making, but because only one operating unit rarely used product costs in decision making this was eliminated from the data analysis ...
doi:10.5539/ibr.v1n3p3
fatcat:zqa6vpwksncm3nfb5lvm6u47se
Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics
1999
Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics
For France, we find that most of the firm-size wage effect and most of the inter-industry wage effect is due to person effects-differences in the external wage rates. ...
We derive and analyze analytic approximations for optimal investment behavior, and show how the quasi-fixity of. capital eliminates the dichotomy between factor mix and scale. ...
This suggests that their beauty creates firm-Sakakibara, Mariko AB Several studies conclude that technical analysis is a valid investment tool, however, the effects of data-snooping are not fully accounted ...
doi:10.1017/s0951007900004733
fatcat:y33rsxgponhrtbw2raeqoc6vwq
International Business Research, Vol.1, No.3, July 2008
2009
International Business Research
Acknowledgement The authors would like to thank Kamala Nathan for his comments and Rahimah for expert research assistantship. ...
For the purpose of data analysis, only those operating units making selling price decisions were included, and the importance measure was reverse scored for analysis. ...
All of these operating units made some use of product costs in decision making, but because only one operating unit rarely used product costs in decision making this was eliminated from the data analysis ...
doi:10.5539/ibr.v1n3p0
fatcat:gg55varh2rdubai56h4afzj37q
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