Contract farming (CF) has long been practiced but is becoming increasingly common in both
developed and develo** countries with the heightened interest of consumers in food …

The vast majority of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in develo** countries are located
in industrial clusters, and the majority of such clusters have yet to see their growth take off …

I would like to argue in this article that in the process of economic development in land‐poor
countries in Asia, agriculture faces three distinctly different problems: food insecurity …

With veteran unemployment rates in the US higher than civilian rates there has been
growing support for assisting military veterans starting businesses. This study compares the …

We examine the roles of local and personal networks in the employment process and the
emergence and development of the labor market in Ethiopia's growing cut flower industry …

This study adopts a resource-based view to model how location specific-factors among
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in coastal environments in develo** …

Agriculture in develo** countries is transforming from the production of cereal grains to
high-value agricultural products (HVPs) and processing them to meet the standards …

Background There has been a growing recognition that the most critical missing factor
impeding the growth and productivity of manufacturing enterprises in develo** countries is …

This book attempts to provide an effective strategy for industrial development based on the
KAIZEN management training experiments conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Vietnam …

This paper is based on a project of develo** small and medium-sized enterprises in South
Khorasan, Iran. A combination of multiple criteria decision making and robust multi-objective …