Understanding the Caribbean Enterprise, Nicholson

Автор: Thompson Araujo, Clavijo, Vostro
Название: Understanding The Income And Efficiency Gap In Latin America And The Caribbean
ISBN: 1464804508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464804502
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The countries of the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC), like other emerging economies, have benefited from a decade of remarkable growth and some income per capita convergence towards the United States and other industrialized countries. However, even nearly ten years of solid growth in the first decade of the 21st century could not guarantee that LAC would move on to a sustained long-term income convergence path. In fact, despite this recent progress, LAC still faces a significant per capita income gap with the developed world. The papers in this volume contribute to the ongoing debate on the reasons for this persistent income gap and the potential drivers of convergence, and propose some broad avenues for reform. This volume presents new macro-, sectoral-, and micro-level evidence that: (i) differences in total factor productivity (TFP), or efficiency in using the production factors, such as physical and human capital, explain a large part of LAC's persistent income gap; and (ii) resource misallocation is the main factor behind LAC's large efficiency gap. At the same time, the findings of this volume indicate there is significant room for further economic growth gains from technology adoption and innovation more broadly. In fact, the quality of the available technology in LAC is low, and there is very little innovation. Although firms can use innovation to reach productivity at the global productivity frontier, weak institutions reduce incentives to innovate. This volume also proposes that the main priorities for improving resource allocation and the incentives to innovate include: (i) enhancing market competition in key network industries (transport, financial, telecommunications, logistics, communication and distribution services); (ii) increasing labor market flexibility (including skill-mismatches and social barriers); (iii) removing informational frictions (including complex tax regimes and credit rationing); (iv) strengthening property rights; and (v) improving the rule of law.

Автор: Grosh, Bussolo & Freije-Rodrigue
Название: Understanding The Poverty Impact Of The Global Financial Crisis In Latin America And (210241)
ISBN: 1464802416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464802416
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This study documents the effects of the 2008–09 global financial crisis on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In doing so, it describes and decomposes the effects of the crisis on poverty using data from comparable household budget surveys for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, and labor force surveys for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. The study also provides macro-micro modeling of crisis and no-crisis scenarios for Mexico and Brazil, as well as the big picture and program-specific details of the social protection policy responses for these countries and more.Among the findings are the following. First, the effects of the global financial crisis on those living in poverty were not trivial: more than 3 million people fell into or remained mired in poverty in 2009 as a result of the crisis. Of these, 2.5 million were Mexican. Second, the changes in poverty were driven by changes in labor incomes caused by a variable combination of changes in employment rates and real wages. Third, the macro-micro modeling revealed different adjustment mechanisms but similar final incidence results for Brazil and Mexico. The results were regressive overall, with the middle of the income distribution hit even a bit more than the poor. According to the descriptive results from the larger set of countries, changes in inequality accounted for a tenth to a third of changes in poverty. Fourth, countries were quite active in their social protection policy responses, largely taking advantage of programs built in precrisis years. Social transfers partially offset the lower labor earnings of the poor, although income protection for the unemployed was weak. Finally, overall the policy messages are that good policy helps attenuate the links between a global crisis and poverty in the LAC countries, and many of the important things need to be done ex ante such as dealing with the macro fundamentals and building social protection programs.

Автор: Foxall
Название: Understanding Consumer Choice
ISBN: 1403914923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403914927
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Understanding Consumer Choice shows how attempts to relate consumers` attitudes and actions have implicitly incorporated measures of the very variables at the heart of a situational theory of consumer choice. These are the buyer`s consumption history and the physical and social setting in which consumer behaviour occurs.

Автор: Tonsberg
Название: Understanding Leadership in Complex Systems
ISBN: 331940444X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319404448
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This work proposes that Carl Menger’s Subjective Theory of Value (STV), and its subsequent elaboration by Ludwig von Mises as Praxeology, provides a useful alternative to more common methods in the study of action and social phenomena, and more specifically, to leadership in complex social systems. Rather than being based on rationality assumptions and algorithmic predictability, the STV emphasizes transient subjectivity shaped by a complex world of lacking information, mistakes, disequilibrium, uncertainty and attempted error correction that defy mathematization and exact prediction. As such, it is a framework to make sense of human action systems in terms of subjective understanding, learning, and uncertainty, rather than quantitative predictability. Accordingly, the aim of this work is to explain the STV as a general theory of action and to demonstrate its capability in developing adequate qualitative theory and to elaborate on some of the major topics that its implications raise with regard to leadership. The power of the method can be seen in that its procedure naturally branches out to facilitate an understanding of a broad selection of processes and may provide the basis for a universal theory of leadership.

Автор: Family Firm Institute Inc
Название: Family Enterprise + Online Assessment Tool: Understanding Families in Business and Families of Wealth
ISBN: 1118730925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118730928
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A thorough explanation of how family enterprises work The family enterprise, whether an operating business, a family office, or both, is the backbone of the US and international economies.

Автор: Fuchs
Название: Understanding Psychological Bonds between Individuals and Organizations
ISBN: 0230363466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230363465
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In Understanding Psychological Bonds between Individuals and Organizations the author integrates different theoretical perspectives on how individuals form deep, meaningful, and self-defining relationships with their employing organization and proposes a novel and comprehensive take on key triggers and processes associated with such relationships.

Автор: Network T et al
Название: Understanding Corporate Life
ISBN: 1412923832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412923835
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Helps readers understand the relationship between organizations and everyday experience, enriching both their encounter with the field of organization studies as well as their understanding of the complexities of corporate life itself.

Автор: Ann E. Davis
Название: The Evolution of the Property Relation: Understanding Paradigms, Debates, and Prospects
ISBN: 1137352108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137352101
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: By examining the concurrent emergence of the market, the nation state, and the notion of individual private property, The Evolution of the Property Relation provides insights into the related institutional structures and processes of change based on the "

Автор: Davila
Название: Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments
ISBN: 0230290027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230290020
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability. A common theme in these chapters is that organizations actively engage with their environments. Consequently, organizational responses are partly the result of iterative processes with the environment.

Автор: William G. Egelhoff; Joachim Wolf
Название: Understanding Matrix Structures and their Alternatives
ISBN: 1137579749 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137579744
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In addition to structural configuration, Understanding Matrix Structures identifies and develops the mode of decision making within a matrix as an important second dimension of matrix structure design.