Several agro-ecological practices have been developed to increase the range of soil fertility management options available to farmers, but little information is available on their labour input requirement and profitability relative to conventional practices. This study used a multiple visit...

Several Latin American cities are replacing their semi-deregulated and dispersed public transport services by integrated public transport systems to overcome quality of service issues and multiple negative externalities. Cities can choose to implement their reform quickly – like Santiago,...

There is a large gap between the planned value of investment in a project and its financial implementation. This fact creates a mismatch between the planned and effectively achieved net present value (NPV) of the project. Considering the project portfolio of a company, this could even threaten...

1.1 The purpose of this paper is to present the Evaluation Framework that will structure, support and guide the evaluation research which will be carried out to evaluate the Welland SAP Pathfinder (“the Pathfinder”). The starting point for the development of the Framework is the National and...

National, regional and local partners from the Welland worked together to develop the Pathfinder Project (subsequently re-named the Turnpike Project). The main partners (Defra, Small Business Service and emda) agreed that the project would concentrate on the delivery of services for rural...

In our context, a good-reputation manager favors risk when being perceived as good allows to be promoted while risk is observable but not verifiable. Indeed, it renders more difficult the learning process regarding her talent. In turn, this lowers her level of effort since the extent to which...