In: Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, no. 17, p. 28
The epidemics and pandemics can severely affect food supply chains, including producers, retailers, wholesalers, and customers. To minimize their impacts, it is fundamental to implement effective policies that ensure continuity in the provision, affordability, and distribution of basic food items. This research identifies the main impacts of pandemics and epidemics on food supply chains and ...
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In: System dynamics review, 2021, vol. 37, no. 2-3, p. 155-196
Benefiting from historically favorable conditions (e.g. low costs, fertile land, and abundant water), pistachio producers in Rafsanjan, Iran, have flourished, with pistachio orchards and production growing dramatically since the 1970s. Today, however, the enormous increase in water consumption associated with pistachio production has severely depleted groundwater aquifers, causing widespread...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2022 ; 2022COM001.
This doctoral thesis identifies and analyses problems of text production in finance from three complementary perspectives and explains why solving these problems benefits theory, practice, and society at large. Part I, Problem Identification, outlines the current situation of writing in finance, its problems and their consequences on the financial community and on society at large, entailing...
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In: The european journal of development research, 2021, p. 27
This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES - Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank - to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients from the South and Northeast...
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In: Consumption markets & culture, 2021, p. 24
As a result of Covid-19 outbreak, surgical facemasks first emerged as a pandemic icon to then expand into a marketplace icon, with substantial transformations in their meanings, uses, and commercial expressions. This essay contends that facemasks have become a (post-)pandemic marketplace icon by articulating tensions in the socio-cultural, the public media, and the economic sphere. Relying ...
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In: Philosophy of Management, 2021, no. 20, p. 431–439
EM Forster’s short story “The Machine Stops” from 1909 is widely reread and discussed again for some ten years as it portrays a science- fiction world resting on similar technological advancements as today in the digital era. Also management literature reviewed the short story with regard to centralized decision making, rationality and totalitarianism. I argue instead, that the main theme...
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In: Journal of economic behavior and organization, 2021, vol. 182, no. February, p. 12 p
Stress is associated with sleep problems and poor sleep is linked to mental health and depression symptoms. The stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have documented the significant relationship between immigration policy and the physical and mental health of immigrants, we know little about the effects of...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2021 ; TDEE 455.
Under normal conditions, economies go through boom-and-bust cycles. Covid-19 highlighted the problem of uncertainty in the economy that authors such as Frank Knight have proposed, particularly the unpredictable nature of economic systems. It is in this aspect that the analysis of the phenomenon is of particular interest, with the aim of understanding the repercussions that the response, in the...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Gestion & Tourisme, 2021.
This thesis aims to test out the credibility of past research done on viral marketing principles combined with the use of emotions to use in short video campaigns to reach viral success. In parallel, it also tests out how well a panel of experts can predict the outcome of video marketing campaigns using an iterative prediction method. Two batches of three videos each were created and posted,...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Gestion & Tourisme, 2020.
Visual content communities such as Pinterest perform well for destination marketing, especially as users are reached along the entire customer journey. This study investigates Pinterest’s optimization possibilities in raising awareness of the destination Switzerland before and during a self-managed leisure trip.
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