The role of private companies in improving nutrition of consumer groups in a developing country: a hedonic analysis of tilapia attributes in Bangladesh

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 12-22

Author(s):

Mehreen Fatima ◽

Zeeshan Izhar ◽

Zaheer Abbas Kazmi

Keyword(s):

Organizational Commitment ◽

Organizational Justice ◽

Developing Country ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Direct Relationship ◽

Banking Sector ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Research Gap ◽

The Impact

Purpose- The primary purpose of the study is to determine the impact of organizational justice (OJ) on employee sustainability. Along with that, it also describes how organizational commitment mediates this direct relationship. This study includes all dimensions of OJ which are distributive, procedural and interactional (interpersonal & informational) within the context of a developing country (Pakistan). Design/Methodology- This study has considered employees working in the banking sector of Pakistan. Two hundred ten questionnaires were received back from employees. Regression analysis was used to analyze direct relationships between variables, while smart partial least squares (PLS) were used for mediation analysis. Findings- Results demonstrated that all hypothesis were accepted and it was also confirmed that organizational commitment (OC) mediates the direct relationship between OJ and employee sustainability (ES). Originality/value- Multidimensional construct of organizational justice was tested in this study, in the context of a developing country (Pakistan), to address the research gap.

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Inside the Enemy's Computer

10.1093/oso/9780190699994.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Clement Guitton

Keyword(s):

National Security ◽

Technical Problem ◽

Technical Information ◽

Cyber Attack ◽

Criminal Cases ◽

Private Companies ◽

Political Issues ◽

Current Thinking ◽

Standards Of Evidence

Attribution — tracing those responsible for a cyber attack — is of primary importance when classifying it as a criminal act, an act of war, or an act of terrorism. Three assumptions dominate current thinking: attribution is a technical problem; it is unsolvable; and it is unique. Approaching attribution as a problem forces us to consider it either as solved or unsolved. Yet attribution is far more nuanced, and is best approached as a process in constant flux, driven by judicial and political pressures. In the criminal context, courts must assess the guilt of criminals, mainly based on technical evidence. In the national security context, decision-makers must analyze unreliable and mainly non-technical information in order to identify an enemy of the state. Attribution in both contexts is political: in criminal cases, laws reflect society’s prevailing norms and powers; in national security cases, attribution reflects a state’s will to maintain, increase or assert its power. However, both processes differ on many levels. The constraints, which reflect common aspects of many other political issues, constitute the structure of the book: the need for judgment calls, the role of private companies, the standards of evidence, the role of time, and the plausible deniability of attacks.

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Proposal for an IMF Debt Refinancing Subsidiary

10.1093/oso/9780199474684.003.0018 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Developing Country ◽

Essential Elements ◽

Acceptable Solution ◽

Debt Problem ◽

The Imf

In the chapter, Haq analyses the deepening developing country debt problem of the 1980s and outlines the essential elements for an acceptable solution to the problem. To Haq, IMF seemed to be the most appropriate international intermediary to manage this. Haq goes on to outline the specifics of how the role of the IMF could be modified to find long-term solutions for managing developing-country debt.

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Kuzbass Development Strategy: Past Lessons and Future Wrongs

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202017404038 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 174 ◽

pp. 04038

Author(s):

Yuri Fridman ◽

Galina Rechko ◽

Ekaterina Loginova

Keyword(s):

Strategic Planning ◽

Development Strategy ◽

Living Standards ◽

The Political ◽

Business And Society ◽

Private Companies ◽

Standards Of Living ◽

Economic Reality ◽

The Government

The article discusses the place and role of strategic planning in ensuring that Kemerovo Oblast – Kuzbass develops comprehensively. For over thirty years, we have been studying the region with one of the leading national territorial-production centers established in the 20th century, how it emerged and functioned. Studies suggest that without regard to the economies of Russia as a whole and Kuzbass’s neighboring regions in particular, its issues cannot be satisfactorily resolved. At large, when strategic planning followed this assumption, it contributed to how fast and holistically the territory developed. Considering that, in the 21st century, strategy makers diverged from this concept and started to search for new approaches, the region’s economy has slowed down and its living standards have declined sharply. The momentum can be reversed with an active state socio-economic policy. Its previous forms, however, when the state gave preferences to private companies and did not require corresponding growth in standards of living in return, became unacceptable. It is necessary to work out a system of effective solutions and measures with mechanisms for reconciling the interests of the government, business and society within approaches that are adequate to the political and economic reality of today’s world.

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Nafia for the Tigris: The Privy Purse and the infrastructure of development in late Ottoman Iraq, 1882–1914

History of Science ◽

10.1177/0073275321999265 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 007327532199926

Author(s):

Camille Lyans Cole

Keyword(s):

Development Planning ◽

Private Companies ◽

Starting Point ◽

Private Investors ◽

Late Ottoman

Between 1893 and 1908, at least six private consortia and the municipality of Baghdad were denied permission to operate steamships on the Tigris and Euphrates on the grounds that a navigation concession had already been granted to the Privy Purse ( hazine-i hassa). The Privy Purse justified its insistence on monopoly with reference to the emerging ideology of development ( nafia), though its ideas about the role of steam technology in nafia stood in contrast to those of private investors and other Ottoman bureaucrats. Working from the hazine-i hassa’s planning memos and contracts, I show that the private treasury envisioned a primarily agrarian future for Iraq, with steamships serving agricultural aims. As such, it focused on envisioning future steamships rather than managing its existing fleet, while still acquiring dominance over land and transport in the region. However, private companies and officials contested this vision, emphasizing the materiality of existing steamships, their roles in trade, and the potential for commercial competition as a means of resisting British imperial encroachment. After the Committee of Union and Progress came to power in 1908, the Privy Purse was disestablished and its properties reverted to the Finance Ministry, opening a brief window during which steamship companies were encouraged to proliferate. Quickly, however, new comprehensive schemes were proposed, though with railways replacing steamships as the corollary to Iraq’s imagined riches. Engaging questions about the futurity of both infrastructure and capital, as well as those posed by the technology-in-use paradigm, this article suggests that the hazine-i hassa is a rich starting point for analysis because the scalar and ontological tensions it embodied highlight how different kinds of futures interact in development planning to affect the present.

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