scholarly journals Perspectives of the Farmers on Collection of Vegetables at Dambulla Dedicated Economic Center in Sri Lanka

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2826-2833
Author(s):  
Greshan, P.D.S. ◽  
Kithsiri, V.D.
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Quality Degradation ◽  
Collection Process ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Training ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Agricultural products move through several channels before reaching the final consumers. The collection process of vegetable must be effective and efficient to avoid losses in the supply chain of vegetables. The Dambulla Dedicated Economic Center (DDEC) is considered as the main hub of vegetable and fruit distribution in Sri Lanka. The objective of this research is to analyze the role of DDEC in collection of vegetables in Sri Lanka and explore whether the center meets the best practices of vegetable collection. Transportation, packing and packaging, role of middlemen, and training and knowledge on vegetable collection process were reviewed. Data were collected using a semi structured questioner from 70 farmers linked to the DDEC. High level of quality degradation, poor packing and packaging, lack of knowledge and training on collection, and inefficient role of middlemen were identified as the main issues related to the vegetable collection process of DDEC in Sri Lanka.

The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Grossmann ◽  
Nic M. Weststrate ◽  
Monika Ardelt ◽  
Justin Peter Brienza ◽  
Mengxi Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
The Common ◽  
Empirical Approaches ◽  
And Training ◽  
Contextual Differences

Interest in wisdom in the cognitive sciences, psychology, and education has been paralleled by conceptual confusions about its nature and assessment. To clarify these issues and promote consensus in the field, wisdom researchers met in Toronto in July of 2019, resolving disputes through discussion. Guided by a survey of scientists who study wisdom-related constructs, we established a common wisdom model, observing that empirical approaches to wisdom converge on the morally-grounded application of metacognition to reasoning and problem-solving. After outlining the function of relevant metacognitive and moral processes, we critically evaluate existing empirical approaches to measurement and offer recommendations for best practices. In the subsequent sections, we use the common wisdom model to selectively review evidence about the role of individual differences for development and manifestation of wisdom, approaches to wisdom development and training, as well as cultural, subcultural, and social-contextual differences. We conclude by discussing wisdom’s conceptual overlap with a host of other constructs and outline unresolved conceptual and methodological challenges.

scholarly journals Developing cybersecurity education and awareness programmes for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Bada ◽  
Jason R.C. Nurse
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Security Education ◽  
Education And Awareness ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Training ◽  
Insight Into

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to focus on organisation’s cybersecurity strategy and propose a high-level programme for cybersecurity education and awareness to be used when targeting small- and medium-sized enterprises/businesses (SMEs/SMBs) at a city-level. An essential component of an organisation’s cybersecurity strategy is building awareness and education of online threats and how to protect corporate data and services. This programme is based on existing research and provides a unique insight into an ongoing city-based project with similar aims.Design/methodology/approachTo structure this work, a scoping review was conducted of the literature in cybersecurity education and awareness, particularly for SMEs/SMBs. This theoretical analysis was complemented using a case study and reflecting on an ongoing, innovative programme that seeks to work with these businesses to significantly enhance their security posture. From these analyses, best practices and important lessons/recommendations to produce a high-level programme for cybersecurity education and awareness were recommended.FindingsWhile the literature can be informative at guiding education and awareness programmes, it may not always reach real-world programmes. However, existing programmes, such as the one explored in this study, have great potential, but there can be room for improvement. Knowledge from each of these areas can, and should, be combined to the benefit of the academic and practitioner communities.Originality/valueThe study contributes to current research through the outline of a high-level programme for cybersecurity education and awareness targeting SMEs/SMBs. Through this research, literature in this space was examined and insights into the advances and challenges faced by an on-going programme were presented. These analyses allow us to craft a proposal for a core programme that can assist in improving the security education, awareness and training that targets SMEs/SMBs.

scholarly journals Quality Improvement Incentive Strategy in Agricultural Products Supply Chain under Social Preference

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Social Preference ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Induction Method ◽  
Profit Distribution ◽  
Total Profit ◽  
Fairness Concern ◽  
Incentive Strategy

This paper sets Stackelberg model of bilateral quality efforts decision dominated by supermarket in the agricultural products supply chain by considering fairness concern and altruistic reciprocity. We use backward induction method to compute and prove that A3P’ fairness concern can play the role of profit distribution mechanism in agricultural products supply chain, and has no effect on the bilateral quality efforts decision, total profit of supply chain and objective efficiency, but can improve both the subjective and objective fairness degree. Meanwhile, supermarket’s altruistic reciprocity can improve the total quality efforts and total profit of supply chain, optimize the objective efficiency and subjective fairness of supply chain.

Development of foreign trade in agricultural products and foodstuffs of Belarus by the degree of processing of goods

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
N. V. Karpovich ◽  
E. P. Makutsenya
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
High Level ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Level Of Processing

The structure of world trade in agricultural products and food is analyzed based on the degree of processing of goods. A comparative assessment of the export and import of agro-food products of Belarus is given in the context of the increasing role of products with a high degree of processing of raw materials. The main commodity positions of the country in export and import are presented, systematized into 3 groups – unprocessed products, goods with partial processing and goods with a high level of processing.

High Level Manpower Movements in Northwest Europe and the Role of Careers: An Explanatory Framework

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Salt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
Multinational Organizations ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Northwest Europe ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Training

This article works towards a theoretical explanatory framework for analyzing the geographical patterns of labor flows between the industrial countries of Western Europe. The framework proposed is based on the disaggregated nature of the modern labor market, in which specialist skills and training result in a workforce segmented into self-contained noncompeting groups. It is applied to the migration within Northwest Europe of high level manpower, especially those moving within multinational organizations.

scholarly journals The Role of the Foreign Trade in Ensuring Food Sacurity in the Countries of the World: An Empirical Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 867-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Baryshnikova ◽  
Dorota Klimecka-Tatar ◽  
Olga Kiriliuk
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
International Division ◽  
The World ◽  
Imported Food ◽  
High Level

AbstractTrade in agricultural products is one of the most dynamically developing segments of the global market. The feature of the contemporary stage of world food trade development is that the leading exporters are also the largest food importers, combining the benefits of the international division of labor with the development of domestic agricultural production. In the paper, the role of foreign trade in ensuring food security has been evaluated by comparing the global index of food security and the share of imported food in the domestic market. As a result, the countries of the world have been divided into 4 groups. The first two groups include countries that ensure their citizens a high level of food security through imports, as well as or through their own efficient agricultural production. The third and fourth groups include countries which are not agrarian developed. The problems of hunger and malnutrition in these countries can potentially be solved with the help of foreign trade and increased efforts of the international community.

scholarly journals Multilateral aid to the rescue? Sectoral fragmentation of bilateral development aid and the role of the World Bank

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin C. Steinwand ◽  
Bernhard Reinsberg
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Allocative Efficiency ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
Donor Behavior ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

Bilateral aid projects continue to proliferate in an uncoordinated fashion, leading to fragmented aid delivery, despite high-level political promises to reign in the practice. Frequently absent in the academic and policy debates is an exploration of which policy venues can be effective in changing donor behavior. In this paper, we explore the role of the World Bank in promulgating best practices and enhancing sectoral coordination among bilateral donors. The World Bank's size, policy clout, and its own publicly stated commitments should make it a prime candidate for enacting measures that can help reduce bilateral aid proliferation and fragmentation. We concentrate on sectoral aid allocations and identify possible venues through which the World Bank can affect bilateral donor behavior and increase allocative efficiency, including as Lead Partner, Balancer, and by leading by example through Best Practices. Based on project-level data from 1998 to 2013, we find that bilateral donors and the World Bank allocate projects in a complementary fashion into the same sectors. Furthermore, World Bank and bilateral project numbers move together, and there is some evidence that bilateral donors emulate World Bank behavior. There is no evidence that World Bank activities help to reduce bilateral aid fragmentation.

scholarly journals Dynamic effect of corporate governance on financing decisions: Evidence from Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-159
Author(s):  
Ruzita Abdul-Rahim ◽  
Mohamed Cassim Abdul Nazar ◽  
Mohd Hasimi Yaacob Abdul-Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Dynamic Effect ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Financing Decision

This study investigates the role of corporate governance in influencing the debt financing decision of 198 non-financial listed companies in Sri Lanka from 2009 to 2016. Sri Lanka’s corporate governance (CG) code promotes dispersed ownerships, larger board size and balance of power and authority through various means, such as exclusivity between the Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson and the independent Board composition. This study tests the role of CG through four indicators while controlling for other firm-specific variables. Results of the two-step system Generalized Method of Moments on a balance panel data shows that the effect of CG indicators on financing decision depends on the financing terms. In general, the influence of CG indicators is significant on the two debt financing measurements, except for managerial ownership when investments in assets are involved. This influence appears eminent in predicting the debt ratio, although the effect is not necessarily consistent with the hypotheses. The latest revision on CG codes of best practices has also improved firms’ access to debt financing, except for raising long-term debt to acquire assets. Results imply that the Sri Lankan firms adopting the CG best practices would need to rely on other factors to access long-term debt financing or on other external financing sources.

scholarly journals The impact of leanness on supply chain sustainability: examining the role of sustainability control systems

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasitha Dinithi Rupasinghe ◽  
Chaminda Wijethilake
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose An alignment between financial and operational measures is an essential element to capture the lean productivity improvements enabling supply chain sustainability. With the aim of supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in addressing corporate sustainability challenges, this study aims to examine the impact of leanness on supply chain sustainability, and the moderating role of sustainability control systems (SCS) on the relationship between leanness and supply chain sustainability. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on lean manufacturing and the levers of control framework, survey data was collected from 106 manufacturing SMEs in Sri Lanka. Moderated multiple regression analysis was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings The study finds that lean manufacturing practices, such as just-in-time deliveries, quality management, environmental management and employee involvement show a significant positive impact on supply chain sustainability. As proposed, the interactive use of SCS shows a significant, positive moderating impact on the relationship between employee involvement and social supply chain sustainability. The diagnostic use of SCS negatively moderates the relationships between just-in-time deliveries and economic supply chain sustainability, and environmental management and economic supply chain sustainability. However, both interactive and diagnostic uses of SCS do not show any significant moderating impact between lean manufacturing and environmental supply chain sustainability. Research limitations/implications The following limitations should be taken into account in interpreting the results and implications of this study. Firstly, the study refers to supply chain sustainability as environmental, social and economic sustainability. As these concepts represent broader perspectives of sustainability, and no consensus on how to measure has yet been agreed, future studies may focus on other variables that might capture different perspectives of supply chain sustainability. Secondy, future researchers may further extend the role of SCS (including all four control systems – belief, boundary, interactive and diagnostic) in examining the impact of leanness on supply chain sustainability. Thirdly, this study has considered a sample of manufacturing SMEs in the Western province in Sri Lanka. The results should be carefully generalised to other manufacturing organisations in Sri Lanka and beyond. Finally, future studies may also investigate the impact of leanness on supply chain sustainability by using alternative methodologies, such as multiple case studies. Originality/value SMEs are more likely to focus on diagnostic control systems with the aim of promoting economic supply chain sustainability. However, the findings reveal that manufacturing SMEs in the developing country context lack strong SCS to enable supply chain sustainability.

scholarly journals «LAST MILE DELIVERIES» IN THE FRAMEWORK OF URBAN DISTRIBUTION AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: REVIEW OF BEST PRACTICES

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-64
Author(s):  
Maria Aristea Bakogianni ◽  
◽  
George Malindretos ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Supply Chain Costs ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Urban Distribution ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to investigate the impact of last mile supply chain practices on urban sustainability. An extensive review of literature has been conducted, on last mile logistics best practices, the impact of e-commerce on last miledeliveries, and the dynamics between the public authorities and private businesses, as well as the role of the final customers, the city dwel-lers. Local authorities being aware of the environmental impact of last mile deliveriesissue regulations and take initiatives towards improving the quality of life for their residents. On the other hand, businesses aim at reducing supply chain costs, improve efficiency and offer quality services to their customers. The review of practices lead into the development of a conceptual framework depicting a holistic perspective of last mile deliveries management, highlighting the dynamics between policy makers (public authorities) and the private sector. Keywords: Urban supply chain, Urban distribution, Urban Logistics, Last mile deliveries, Freight Transport

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