one of the most important preparation steps of co-management projects implementation is recognizing key actors at local community level. these actors can assist managers and planners as local leaders and social powers. by applying social network analysis and centrality index at actors’ level of “goormomenin” common rangeland, kalateh region, daamghan city in this research, social powers and loc...

purpose: this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding about strategies and guidelines of rural tourism planning and management in iran, then with the help of experts and their participation identify and classify the different perspectives in iran rural tourism to finally putting forward a step beyond the current impressions and perceptions. methodology: in the past few decades, rura...

Critical knowledge gaps seriously hinder efforts for building disaster resilience at all levels, especially in disaster-prone least developed countries. Information deficiency is most serious at local levels, especially in terms of spatial information on risk, resources, and capacities of communities. To tackle this challenge, we develop a general methodological approach that integrates communi...

Purpose. In this policy brief, we assess variation in Medicare’s star quality ratings of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans that are available to rural beneficiaries. Evidence from the recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quality demonstration suggests that market dynamics, i.e., firms entering and exiting the MA marketplace, play a role in quality improvement. Therefore, we also di...

In the current competitive world, organizations can reach competitive advantage which support entrepreneurship by providing the required tools. One of the most important tools for developing entrepreneurship which was neglected in previous studies is organizational knowledge management. The present paper aims to shed light on the role and importance of knowledge management in sport entreprene...

Non-Governmental Organizations plays an important role in the development sector through participatory people cooperation. NGOs are widely recognized for filling gaps created by governments' failure to satisfy needs of poorest residents developing countries. The number activities undertaken has widened near future. It may range from awareness creation much broad which includes humanitarian issu...

Purpose and direction of the programme The SCC Programme in Europe aims to strengthen the capacities of rural cooperatives, farmer organizations and other civil society organizations to address the needs and rights of their members. The Programme supports the endeavours to strengthen farmer organizations and small farmer owned enterprises as well as support their efforts to comply with EU rules...

This paper describes an empirical approach designed and adopted to analyze and qualify the role of some public agencies devoted to rural development. These public organizations operate as critical agents in managing local public goods within a complex relation system functioning on a rural area. On the bases of the experiences and observations made on a case study in Central Italy, it emerges a...

participative management tries to help organizations to meet their goals and satisfy stakeholders to reach their purposes, and one of its subsystems is suggestion system which is a form of employee – to – management communication that benefit employees as well as employers. in iran and in relation to establishing participative management, the management and planning organization asked public or...