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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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Gestion & Tourisme, 2022.
L’entreprise qui nous a mandaté est une entreprise de montage d’échafaudages. Elle s’interroge sur les innovations qui vont arriver dans son secteur afin de s’y préparer. L’objectif de notre travail est de chercher les innovations disruptives qui pourraient arriver dans le secteur de l’échafaudage et de la construction. Nous avons effectué une étude complète pour évaluer...
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In: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, 2021, vol. 46, no. 3, p. 359-377
Obwohl man im Zuge der COVID-19-Pandemie aufgrund des dramatischen Einbruchs aller Wirtschaftsprognosen weltweit bislang von rezessivdeflationären Auswirkungen ausgegangen ist, lassen sich Inflationsrisiken keineswegs ausschließen. Welche Folgeeffekte kann die Kombination aus milliardenhohen Liquiditätsspritzen bei starkem Produktionsrückgang sowie streng einzuhaltenden (und ebenso...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2021 ; TDEE 447.
La finance durable est une norme qui s’impose dans le domaine financier. Désormais, il est inutile de lancer un fonds de placement qui n’a pas d’objectif de durabilité. Toutefois, pour un investisseur, il n’est pas toujours facile de comprendre en quoi son investissement est bénéfique pour la planète et ses habitants. Les gérants ne sont pas toujours transparents et certains...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2021 ; TDEE 448.
Après 50 ans de recherches scientifiques et controverses, la théorie de l’efficience des marchés financiers demeure un concept central de la formation et fluctuation des prix. Malgré les débats entre les partisans de la finance classique et comportementale, le consensus académique n’a pu aboutir à un modèle permettant de se substituer à celui de l’efficience. Ce travail de...
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