This chapter emphasizes how composite production circuits in global apparel production networks (GPNs) are based on various forms of labour and multiple forms of exploitation. The articulation of garment manufacturing into GPNs, driven by lead firms' predatory purchasing practices, often results...

This chapter compares research management and administration (RMA) associations worldwide and the existing professional development frameworks (PDFs) for RMAs. The comparison is based on a study of 22 national, European Union (EU), and international RMA associations/networks which was carried...

This chapter reviews the recent Bayesian literature on poverty measurement together with some new results. Using Bayesian model criticism, we revise the international poverty line. Using mixtures of lognormals to model income, we derive the posterior distribution for the FGT, Watts and Sen...

The palm oil industry is a complex business and has operated on a global scale for two centuries. It involves local, national and transnational capital, articulates political elites around the world, and mobilizes international nets of scientific investigation and technical knowledge. Since its...

This chapter explores occupational stress in research managers and administrators (RMAs). Data gathered from RMAs in the USA, Great Britain, Europe, Australasia, and Canada through the Research Administrator Stress Perception Survey (RASPerS) are used to examine factors that are known stressors...

This chapter aims at presenting the main characteristics and the contribution of the fuzzy set approach to poverty measurement. The idea behind the approach is to use the so-called membership function to respond to the need to consider the imprecision, uncertainty, and vagueness of poverty when...

The research management and administrator (RMA) profession in the Western Balkans (WB) has not yet been investigated. In this chapter, we provide a first insight into the current state of the profession, its evolution and existing network of peers within the region and between the region and...

As a result of the development of the Functionings and Capabilities Approach to wellbeing assessment, Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation measurement has become popular in recent years. To this end, Efficiency Analysis techniques have been borrowed from the multidimensional production...

Contemporary capitalism is characterized by the predominance of monopoly capital over practically all spheres of the world economy and society. This predominance is related to the emergence of a new international division of labor on the North-South or centre-periphery horizon: the export of...

Research managers and administrators (RMAs) face the invisibility arising from the diversified work and ambiguous boundaries. Some reports pointed out the stress of RMAs. Moreover a long-term career is a critical matter for RMAs to succeed. Thus, this chapter aims to identify the relationship...