Available online 19 June 2012 This paper analyses the technology strategy and standard competition of the most outstanding innovation cases of Apple and Microsoft. The objective of the study is to understand innovators' pursuit of strategies in securing the benefits from an innovation, based on the innovation life cycle model. The study develops a new methodological framework of platform for an...

This article explores the inter-relationship of collective action within the business community, the nature of the political regime and the security of firms’ property rights. Drawing on a pair of surveys recently administered in Russia, we present evidence that post-communist business associations have begun to coordinate business influence over state actors in a manner that is sensitive to re...

Abstract A marked feature of the contemporary U.S. constitutional landscape is campaign by an Evangelical-Catholic coalition against idea secularism, understood this alliance to mean exclusion religion from state and its progressive marginalization social life. Departing tendency treat project as a national phenomenon, article places it within longer global genealogy earlier international Chris...

Agriculture is different from industry and plays a significant role in the economic development of a nation. India‟s prosperity depends upon the agricultural prosperity. There are many kinds of agricultural products produced in India and the marketing of all these farm products generally tends to be a complex process. Agricultural marketing involves many operations and processes through which t...

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This article reviews the current state of literature on notion security tenure land. examination is topical as has become a key objective for land policies and development interventions. While widely defined by people’s perceptions, tend to address it through registration administration rights. The argues that these practices ignore complexity sources (in)security. Building critical political e...

Inequalities generally exist in society regarding the distribution of resources including land. This paper assessed inequalities customary land rights and tenure security among smallholder farmers northwest Ghana using social structure theory. exploratory study adopted focus group discussions, interviews key informants persons institutions area. It also used visual manual interpretation satelli...

Food security in the East African Highlands is dependent upon the productivity of lands managed by smallholders who face difficult challenges in maintaining the fertility of their soils. A study was conducted to identify indicators of soil fertility status that are consistent with farmers’ perceptions of soil fertility. Physical, chemical and biological properties of soils were measured from pa...

The article is dedicated to consideration and assessment of certain problematic aspects legal regulation reproductive rights within the legislative framework Ukraine. It has been noted that conclusions concerning understanding nature should not be seen as general in character, considering such each case determined by specificities a field law light which are being subjected research. Therefore,...

Securing a livelihood in rural Africa is a distinctly complex process involving interactions between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors and between urban and rural activities. In addition to subsistence agriculture, farmers are often engaged in non-agricultural activities that provide important income sources in both rural and urban contexts. Although migratory labor is recognized as...