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The alignment of appropriate firm and supply strategies for competitive advantage

Cousins, Paul D. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 25 (2005) 5, pp. 403-428

Purpose – Aims to prove that a firm's perception of the strategic nature of supply depends on how it defines its competitive advantage within the marketplace. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected using a random stratified cross‐sectional design from 142 large manufacturing...

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Cheap Food and Resource Allocation in Central America

Reinert, Kenneth A. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) 2

shift in land resources away from food crops in Costa Rica, and the causes behind the relaxation of cheap‐food policies in …

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Energy and Depletable Resources: Economics and Policy, 1973-98 (Revised)

Kolstad, Charles D. - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 1998

This paper reviews the impact of the literature in depletable resources and energy economics over the period 1973 …

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On Need, Wants, Resources and Limits

O'Boyle, Edward J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 20 (1993) 12, pp. 13-26

The conventional wisdom in economics is that resources are limited, wants are unlimited, and the business of the … economist is to understand how limited resources are allocated to satisfy unlimited wants. Typically, poverty or unmet physical … studies towards the Enlightenment view. Challenges the conventional wisdom that wants are virtually unlimited, resources are …

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Ecology, environment and resources: contributions of an economist

Sinden, J.A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 4/5/6, pp. 88-97

Professor Clem Tisdell has written widely on the application of economics to resolve ecological, environmental and resource problems. Reviews a selection of his papers to identify how, and how well, an economist can contribute to these problems. Those who read Tisdell’s papers are rewarded by...

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Waste Management: A Systems Perspective

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A systems perspective of waste management allows an integrated approach not only to the five basic functional elements of waste management itself (generation, reduction, collection, recycling, disposal), but to the problems arising at the interfaces with the management of energy, nature...

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Cheap Food and Resource Allocation in Central America

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Cyber defensive capacity and capability : a perspective from the financial sector of a small state

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Limits to growth concepts in classical economics

Saeed, Khalid - In: Feedback economics : economic modeling with system dynamics, (pp. 217-246). 2021

market and the technological advances evoked by it will make it possible to tap new resources and create substitution of …

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TIPS FOR TEACHING THE HIGH SCHOOL ECONOMICS COURSE

Leet, Don R.; Lopus, Jane S. - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 7 (2012) 1, pp. 9-18

economics can be challenging, there are many helpful materials and resources available. …

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