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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Nonmarket"”.
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The sustainable routes to formulating nonmarket strategies
… thesis researches the relationship between the nonmarket environment and nonmarket strategies and further explores the routes companies have taken in embedding sustainability and formulating non-market strategies in their main business to better sustain the long livelihood of corporations. …
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Against the grain: nonmarket strategies of foreign owned firms
Contains fulltext : 91450.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Health and Its Effect on the Household Nonmarket Production and Consumption
The main objectives of the study are: (a) to survey critically the progress that has been made by current research in measuring the monetary and non-monetary returns to investment in health; and (b) to develop a conceptual framework for measuring empirically the effect of non-monetary returns on …
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Three essays on stated choice experiments for nonmarket valuation of landslide protection
This thesis consists of three essays that improve the general understanding of the public demand for safety programmes in the context of natural hazards. With the growing importance of this topic around the world, this study provides a practical and methodological contribution to the literature on …
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Natural Resource Needs Assessment Survey and a Nonmarket Valuation Study of Nevada's Big Game Hunts
… SWAPA. Fourth, with data from the survey, we use nonmarket valuation methods to estimate the marginal willingness to pay for big game hunting trip attributes including: the type of animal, habitat quality, site accessibility, and solitude. We find that these attributes contribute to the benefits …
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The Value of Wildlife Watching Recreation and Techniques for Addressing Nonresponse in Nonmarket Valuation Surveys
… approaches available for combining data from nonmarket valuation surveys such as the travel cost method (TCM) and contingent valuation method (CVM). Another topic explored in this dissertation is the issue of nonresponse in nonmarket valuation surveys. The results of this dissertation are …
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The Estimation of Household Production Functions: An Improved Way to Examine Production in the Nonmarket Sector
In the economic literature, two schools of thought about the behavior of households have emerged. The premise of the first group is that people behave rationally and entirely according to economic principles. The second school of thought holds that (1) rationality involves a careful consideration …
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A Study of Role Overload, Nonmarket Time Use, and Coping Strategies of Middle Class, Employed Women in Intact Families
… study investigated role overload manifested in nonmarket time use and the coping strategies used to deal with the overload. Role overload among employed women was defined based on contributions from role theory and organizational behavior. Nine nonmarket areas were identified for assessment: …
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Empirical essays on open innovation
… This approach to open innovation is termed “nonmarket innovation” because it creates new products without any governance or oversight from a professional organization, and because it avoids firm-led marketplace exchanges as a means of diffusing new products. This chapter focuses on the “maker …
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Location Choice, Linkages and the Spatial Economy: Essays on Theory, Evidence and Heterodox Assessment
… science, focusing on the growing importance of nonmarket interactions. There is increasing evidence that the process of globalization is rendering the world "spiky" rather than "flat". Nonmarket interactions, such as knowledge spillovers, innovation or amenity-based externalities, play a central …
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Child care arrangements and mothers' employment choices
… of full and part-time employment and market and nonmarket child care are predicted with variables affecting labor force participation, child care need and cost, and preferences. In the second analysis, choices among parental, relative, sitter and group care are predicted for employed mothers.
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Social factors influencing natural resource management in the Philippines
… gender relations, the coexistence of market and nonmarket relations, and the power of social networks are among the social constructs that shape the everyday choices and decisions of household resource users. The findings of this study suggest that a "technological fix" model to address resource …
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
… point towards the creation of a third type of nonmarket/quasimarket space (Gibson-Graham, Cameron, and Healy, 2013). I describe several considerations for on-farm apprenticeship to lead to greater equity, reproduction of viable small farm labor models, and stabilized and legitimate nonmarket …
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Property rights in the coal industry: efficiency and legal change
… constrained and does not allow the inclusion of nonmarket factors in the analysis.
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Measuring values for environmental public goods: incorporating gender and ethnic social effects into stated-preference value-elicitation methods
… to pay to reduce risks associated with nonmarket goods and services, the risk aversion literature finds systematic gender and race differences in levels of aversion to risks. Women are found to be more risk averse than men and Blacks and Hispanics less risk averse than whites. It is …
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A Model of the Growth of Government
… productive assets, especially skilled labor, in nonmarket activities. In particular the growth of the middle class which relies heavily on the supply of human capital may have led to its increased dependence on the market to higher and more equal incomes, and to the greater power to tax of the …
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The role of information in mail contingent valuation surveys: a study estimating wildlife benefits
… increasing frequency to estimate the value of nonmarket goods such as wildlife. Increasing use of and demand for the method has lead to the ~) increased use of mail surveys to collect value information. Themail format, however may place limitations the method's ability to generate acceptable …
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The economics of spring turkey hunting in Virginia
… in Virginia. Because spring turkey hu nting is a nonmarket good, a market price does not exist for it. Data on hunters' expenditures on equipment and licenses is useful but does not represent the total economic value of the resource. The total economic value includes the hunters' willingness to …
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Essays on Methods to Support Ecosystem Accounting
… exchange value, further supporting the use of nonmarket valuation techniques in EA. The third chapter focuses on another critical challenge in EA: the lack of consistent, accessible, and scalable biophysical data, which represents a significant barrier to the appropriate and effective …
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