Essays about: "frontiers of existence"

Found 3 essays containing the words frontiers of existence.

  1. 1. “The forest is gone bit by bit" - Deforestation and its impacts on indigenous communities in Prey Lang, Cambodia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Marie Theresa Jürgensen; [2022]
    Keywords : Kuy indigenous people; resource frontiers; frontiers of existence; Prey Lang; Cambodia; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Globally, deforestation is occurring at staggering rates and causing tremendous impacts on the planet. Indigenous people, in particular, have long depended on the forest, and their beliefs and ways of life are highly affected by the changes occurring around them. READ MORE

  3. 2. Analyzing firm performance in a glass industry: a non-parametric frontier approach

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Serajes Salekeen; Mona Mahram; [2011]
    Keywords : industrial glass factory.; scale efficiency; technical efficiency; non-parametric frontier; economic efficiency; data envelopment analysis; allocative efficiency; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : A non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) method is applied in this study in order for calculating the technical and scale efficiency of a glass factory by means of a production frontier, despite the common trend among contemporary literatures to use stochastic parametric methods and ‘estimate’ the frontier production function. The available aggregated structure of the firm data paved the way for the authors to rethink and adopt a mathematical (linear programming) approach which would make it possible to conduct the study with a limited number of observations and without the detailed form of the production function. READ MORE

  4. 3. Family Controlled Firms on the Stock Market : Do family-controlled firms show a convergence in corporate governance systems?

    University essay from IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Miguel Ángel Mártires; Kamil Sawicki; [2008]
    Keywords : Corporate Governance; Family-controlled firms; Convergence; Board of directors; Ownership structure;

    Abstract : Background: Family-business is considered to be the most frequent and complex form of business organization around the world. However, recently there has been a large number of corporate scandals in such firms especially at the board level (e.g. Parmalat). READ MORE