The author of the study reported here set out to understand and then explain the degree to which predominantly low-income, illiterate parents of children at a Ghanaian community school value education. Information gained from this exploratory study will contribute to…

The article analyses various approaches and the main management theories: their advantages, shortcomings, real possibilities of use by managers of companies and entrepreneurs, seeking to ensure competitiveness in the global markets, realising the objectives and obtaining optimal economical and social…

Scientific research has taken a new direction, aimed at solution of the human resource development problems in the light of new challenges posed by the European Union enlargement, formation of knowledge society and internationalization processes in private and public sectors.…

Cuba es uno de los pocos lugares en el mundo donde se obtiene producción industrial de petróleo en rocas de la asociación ofiolítica. El primer yacimiento descubierto fue Motembo en 1881 y el más reciente Cantel en el año 1978.…

El desarrollo de tecnologías emergentes implica el reto permanente de utilizar nuevas herramientas de gestión tecnológica. La ingeniería de enzimas y su respectiva tecnología, en el contexto de la biotecnología, es una de las áreas del conocimiento sobre las cuales…

This survey presents within a single model three theories of decentralization of decision-making within organizations based on private information and incentives. Renegotiation, collusion, and limits on communication are three sufficient conditions for decentralization to be optimal., Cet article présente, dans…

We analyze an alternative to the standard rationalizability requirement for observed choices by considering non-deteriorating selections. A selection function is a generalization of a choice function where selected alternatives may depend on a reference (or status quo) alternative in addition…

We identify conditions under which preferences over sets of consumption opportunities can be reduced to preferences over bundles of \"commodities\". We distinguish ordinal bundles, whose coordinates are defined up to monotone transformations, from cardinal bundles, whose coordinates are defined up…

This paper provides new versions of Harsanyi’s social aggregation theorem that are formulated in terms of prospects rather than lotteries. Strengthening an earlier result, fixed-population ex-ante utilitarianism is characterized in a multi-profile setting with fixed probabilities. In addition, we extend…

This paper proposes a definition of relative uncertainty aversion for decision models under complete uncertainty. It is shown that, for a large class of decision rules characterized by a set of plausible axioms, the new criterion yields a complete ranking…