Historically, managers in livestock production have focused on production management; however, as operations have grown they have spent more time managing employees. Increased time spent overseeing employees brings additional risks and challenges, and, hence, a greater need for human resource...

This work aims to analize the impacts of the large scale eucalyptus plantation introduction into the areas of Alto Jequitinhonha in the decade of 1970, starting from the several local actors’ depositions, articulated with available literature on the theme. The work is structured in an...

In this comment the issues of power hierarchies and the role of feminist methodology in fieldwork are addressed. Observations from fieldwork in Turkey for research on gender-based constraints faced by women micro- and small entrepreneurs are used to identify some of the power hierarchies...

This article outlines a pilot program undertaken to assess the advantages and disadvantages of including significant elements of grounded theory in research measuring women's progress. This pilot program, carried out in Western Australia, aimed at broadening the range of data collection and...

JARVIS H. (1997) Housing, labour markets and household structure: questioning the role of secondary data analysis in sustaining the polarization debate, Reg. Studies 31, 521-531. This paper presents a critique of the polarization thesis as it is popularly conceived in Britain. The apparent...