Analysis of the drivers of change in women’s anemia in Tanzania 2005-2015

This study was conducted in 2012 and replicates Bussin and Huysamenâ€™s (2004) work, conducted in 2003, on remuneration policies. It investigates the factors driving remuneration policy in South Africa and determines whether these factors have changed since 2003. Anonymous e-mail questionnaires were received from 131 senior company representatives. All participating companies were members of the South African Reward Association (SARA) or clients of a large remuneration consulting firm. Data were analysed using a chi-squared test and factor analysis. Results support Bussin and Huysamenâ€™s study, which found that the two main drivers of change in policy were the retention of talented staff and the financial results of the organisation. However, three components of remuneration are receiving greater prominence than they did in 2003: governance in the organisation, merit pay and retention strategies. These findings suggest a greater shareholder expectation that pay should be linked to performance, and that pay acts as a retention strategy for critical staff.

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Science Centres as The Drivers of Change on Social and Educational Arena

International Journal of Economics Business and Entrepreneurship ◽

10.31023/ijebe.102.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (01) ◽

pp. 127-137

Author(s):

Barczyñski Paweł ◽

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Gotwald-Feja Beata ◽

Kowalczyk Marlena ◽

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Keyword(s):

Drivers Of Change ◽

Science Centres

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TIMESCALES AND DRIVERS OF CHANGE AT THE BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS

10.1130/abs/2016am-284350 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Brenda B. Bowen ◽

Keyword(s):

Drivers Of Change ◽

Salt Flats

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Transformation

10.1093/oso/9780198739135.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Karen J. Esler ◽

Anna L. Jacobsen ◽

R. Brandon Pratt

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Fire Regimes ◽

Human Populations ◽

Land Use Land Cover ◽

Mountainous Areas ◽

Drivers Of Change ◽

Natural Systems ◽

Natural Landscapes ◽

Habitat Conversion ◽

Residential Use

Extensive habitat loss and habitat conversion has occurred across all mediterranean-type climate (MTC) regions, driven by increasing human populations who have converted large tracts of land to production, transport, and residential use (land-use, land-cover change) while simultaneously introducing novel forms of disturbance to natural landscapes. Remaining habitat, often fragmented and in isolated or remote (mountainous) areas, is threatened and degraded by altered fire regimes, introduction of invasive species, nutrient enrichment, and climate change. The types and impacts of these threats vary across MTC regions, but overall these drivers of change show little signs of abatement and many have the potential to interact with MTC region natural systems in complex ways.

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Navigating the New Retail Landscape

10.1093/oso/9780198868767.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Alan Treadgold ◽

Jonathan Reynolds

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Business Models ◽

Retail Industry ◽

Drivers Of Change ◽

Economic Crises ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Personal Leadership ◽

Practical Guidance ◽

The Impact ◽

Rapid Emergence

The retail industry globally is in an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change, change which has been further accelerated for many by the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic and its attendant health and economic crises. This book is intended to serve as a wide-ranging, robust, practical guide to leaders of enterprises tasked with understanding and delivering success in the new landscape of retailing. Part 1 describes the major directions and drivers of change that define the new global landscape of retailing. Accelerating changes in technology, the rise to prominence globally of internet enabled shoppers and the rapid emergence of entirely new retail enterprises and business models are combining to re-shape the very fundamentals of the retail industry. The new landscape of retailing is unforgiving: success can be achieved more quickly than ever before but failure is equally rapid. Opportunities in the new landscape of retailing are profound, but so too are the challenges. Part 2 discusses the structures, skills and capabilities that retail enterprises will need to be successful in this new landscape and the skills and capabilities required of the leaders of retail enterprises. More than 25 detailed case studies of innovative, successful enterprises internationally and more than one hundred smaller examples, all updated and many new since the first edition, are used to illustrate the themes discussed. Frameworks are presented to provide practical guidance for enterprise leaders to understand and contextualize the nature of change re-shaping retail landscapes globally. Clear guidance is given of the capabilities, skills and perspectives needed at both an enterprise and personal leadership level to deliver success in the new landscape of retailing.

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Oceanic islands and climate: using a multi-criteria model of drivers of change to select key conservation areas in Galapagos

Regional Environmental Change ◽

10.1007/s10113-021-01768-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Escobar-Camacho ◽

Paulina Rosero ◽

Mauricio Castrejón ◽

Carlos F. Mena ◽

Francisco Cuesta

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Environmental Change ◽

Southern Oscillation ◽

Marine Reserve ◽

Galapagos Islands ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Assessment Model ◽

Human Populations ◽

Galápagos Islands ◽

Drivers Of Change

AbstractThe unique marine and terrestrial ecosystems of the Galapagos Islands are highly vulnerable to human-based drivers of change, including the introduction of invasive species, unsustainable tourism, illegal fishing, overexploitation of ecosystem services, and climate change. These drivers can interact with climate-based drivers such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) at multiple temporal and spatial scales, exacerbating their negative impacts on already fragile ecosystems and the socioeconomic system of the Archipelago. In this review, we performed a literature review based on published literature from 1945 to 2020 and local and global climate databases to analyze drivers of change in the Galapagos. We developed and applied a spatial impact assessment model to identify high-ecological value areas with high sensitivity and exposure scores to environmental change drivers. We identified 13 priority HEVA that encompass ca. 23% (14,715 km2) of the Galapagos Archipelago, distributed in nearly 3% of the Galapagos Marine Reserve and 20% Galapagos National Park. Current and future impacts are likely to concentrate on the inhabited islands’ highlands, whereas marine impacts concentrate along most of the Galapagos Islands’ shorelines. These results are important for guiding the design and implementation of adaptation measures aimed at increasing ecosystem resilience and human adaptive capacity in the face of global environmental change. Overall, these results will be valuable in their application for preserving Galapagos biota, securing the provision of vital ecosystem services for resident human populations, and sustaining the nature-based tourism industry.

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Roman History

Greece and Rome ◽

10.1017/s0017383520000315 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 135-148

Author(s):

James Corke-Webster

Keyword(s):

Roman Republic ◽

Social History ◽

Institutional Economics ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

New Institutional Economics ◽

Roman History ◽

Drivers Of Change ◽

Ancient Economy

A bumper edition this time, by way of apology for COVID-necessitated absenteeism in the autumn issue. The focus is on three pillars of social history – the economy (stupid), law, and religion. First up is Saskia Roselaar's second monograph, Italy's Economic Revolution. Roselaar sets out to trace the contribution made by economics to Italy's integration in the Roman Republic, focusing on the period after the ‘conquest’ of Italy (post 268 bce). Doing so necessitates two distinct steps: assessing, first, how economic contacts developed in this period, and second, whether and to what extent those contacts furthered the wider unification of Italy under Roman hegemony. Roselaar is influenced by New Institutional Economics (hereafter NIE), now ubiquitous in studies of the ancient economy. Her title may be an homage to Philip Kay's Rome's Economic Revolution, but the book itself is a challenge to that work, which in Roselaar's view neglects almost entirely the agency of the Italians in the period's economic transformation. For Roselaar, the Italians were as much the drivers of change as the Romans; indeed, it is this repeated conviction that unifies her chapters.

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