Search Results - subject:"Bottom‐up approach"

A bottom‐up approach for productivity measurement and improvement

Jagoda, Kalinga; Lonseth, Robert; Lonseth, Adam - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 62 (2013) 4, pp. 387-406

suggest a bottom‐up approach that may be used by firms in planning, managing and forecasting productivity improvements. Design … application of piece‐meal solutions for problems in productivity. Bottom‐up approach in improving productivity will provide better … results than top‐down approach. Originality/value – This paper describes the bottom‐up approach which has been successfully …

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Improved alternatives to price multiple and earnings growth ratios used by bottom-up investors

DeBoeuf, David A.; Lee, Hongbok; Stanley, Alex - In: Applied financial economics 23 (2013) 22/24, pp. 1745-1754

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Kommunikationsbeziehungen der Amter fur Landwirtschaft und Flurneuordnung im Bereich der Agrarumweltprogramme - Fallstudie Sachsen-Anhalt

Prager, Katrin; Nagel, Uwe Jens - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2005

The administration and implementation of agri-environmental schemes is one of the tasks of Agricultural Agencies (Amter fur Landwirtschaft und Flurneuordnung). These agencies thus play a major role for all farmers interested or participating in funding schemes. Assuming that feeding information...

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Caring Dairy: A Sustainable Dairy Farming Initiative in Europe

Calker, Klaas Jan van; Antink, Rudi H.J. Hooch; … - International Farm Management Association - IFMA - 2005

Interest in the concept of sustainability in dairy farming has grown as a result of the continuous pressure on farm incomes, occurrence of animal diseases with a major impact on the image of dairy farming, concerns about animal welfare, and environmental problems caused by agriculture. There...

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Enhancing Meso Level Research in Sustainability Science—Challenges and Research Needs

Hara, Keishiro; Uwasu, Michinori; Kobayashi, Hideki; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1833-1847

Growing numbers of promising visions of the future and scenarios that may lead toward building sustainable societies are being developed. At the same time, advanced technologies and research seeds that could increase the likelihood of achieving such visions are also being rigorously conceived....

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A Bottom-Up Approach for Climate Change: The Trade Experience

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 1-54

This article argues that the Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was doomed to face difficulties ab initio. Moving the climate change agenda forward multilaterally among the 195 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is proving...

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Comparison of Post-Disaster Housing Procurement Methods in Rural Areas of Turkey

Dikmen, Nese; Elias-Ozkan, Soofia Tahira; Davidson, Colin - In: Open House International 37 (2012) 1, pp. 28-39

Earthquakes strike without warning, even though they are known to recur. It is nonetheless difficult to mobilize resources to plan for them in advance, despite the high social and economic costs that can be anticipated, and despite the humanitarian obligation to provide quality and safe housing....

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Climate change and the resilient society: utopia or realistic option for German regions?

Frommer, Birte - In: Natural Hazards 58 (2011) 1, pp. 85-101

For the last five years, climate change has been increasingly perceived as a challenge for regional development. Compared to other nations, Germany is relatively ‘safe’, but the German regions are prone to different impacts of climate change; some of them might be positive but most will be...

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PREDICTING PRICES OF FINANCIAL ASSETS: FROM CLASSICAL ECONOMICS TO INTELLIGENT FINANCE

HAYWARD, SERGE - In: New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NMNC) 07 (2011) 02, pp. 229-247

Determining the circumstances under which it is possible to make any sort of prediction is a fundamental question in financial research. The presence of complex and robust statistical characteristics, exhibited by most financial time series, raise doubts on the simple relationship between...

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Women's Agrotourist Cooperatives in Greece: Key Elements for Their Successful Operation

Iakovidou, Olga - In: Journal of Rural Cooperation 30 (2002) 1

, organization and management. This article aims to analyze the women's agrotourist cooperatives, to point out the bottom-up approach … bottom-up approach. The women's cooperatives managed to professionalize their part-time work. They created a source of income …

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