Passenger transportation in Japan's main metropolitan areas is operated by the JR companies, which were privatized and divested from Japan National Railways (JNR) in 1987 and by 16 major private railway companies with large-scale operations. Although their core business is transportation, the...

In recent years, the management research has increasingly discussed service transition. However, studies have not used sufficiently granular empirical data for valid quantitative evaluation of service-intensive strategies by, for example, examining the possible effects of resource slack on firm...

Although the Middle East is often perceived as politically, economically, and socially unstable, Saudi Arabia offers a different narrative. Inspired by the country's vision (Vision 2030) and the growing body of research exploring its socio-economic transformation, this article examines how...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a cornerstone policy of the European Union, increasingly focused on promoting environmentally sustainable practices. In 2014, the CAP introduced Greening payments and a crop diversification requirement to enhance soil resilience and mitigate ecosystem...

Vietnam’s path to sustainable and innovative growth increasingly depends on how effectively it diversifies and repositions its export portfolio in the global market, or how the country “brand” itself through its exports to the world. Using data from UN Comtrade, we construct the Product...

As tensions between the West and China deepen, critical minerals and materials for strategic technologies, including for low-carbon energy, have become one of the battlegrounds. China's centrality to the supply of some of these critical minerals and materials has prompted Western governments to...

This research explores the effects of significant global economic shocks, such as the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, on GDP growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations. Employing a dynamic generalized method of moments (GMM) model, the analysis highlights...

Many people in rural Africa still rely on smallholder agriculture as their main source of livelihood. Yet pursuing other economic activities beyond farming to diversify incomes becomes increasingly important. In this paper, we focus on the role of people's income aspirations in the process of...

Microcredit, a financial tool providing uncollateralized loans to low-income individuals, has seen a shift from joint-liability (JL) to individual liabil- ity (IL) lending models. This article tests a theory explaining this shift, focusing on borrowers matching into groups exposed to similar...

The repurposing project of the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark is a showcase example of a successful redevelopment project with a strong reskilling perspective. When the Odense Steel Shipyard closed down, a concept was developed on how to reskill the laid-off workers and get them back into...

The repurposing project of the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark is a showcase example of a successful redevelopment project with a strong reskilling perspective. When the Odense Steel Shipyard closed down, a concept was developed on how to reskill the laid-off workers and get them back into...

The European Union's (EU) START facility (Secretariat Technical Assistance to Regions in Transition) under the Initiative for coal regions in transition assists EU regions in taking measures to move away from coal, peat and oil shale energy dependence in a manner that promotes a just transition....

This project aims to enhance competitiveness and diversify the local business landscape in the Balvi Municipality. This initiative was carried out as part of the second round of project application selection, specifically under the specific objective 3.3.1 of the "Growth and Employment"...

This project aims to enhance competitiveness and diversify the local business landscape in the Balvi Municipality. This initiative was carried out as part of the second round of project application selection, specifically under the specific objective 3.3.1 of the "Growth and Employment"...

We develop a novel approach to understand the dynamic diversification of decision makers with quantile preferences. Due to unavailability of analytical solutions to such complex problems, we suggest to approximate the behavior of agents with a Quantile Deep Reinforcement Learning (Q-DRL)...