This article critically reviews the role of participatory theory in managing development
projects and programmes in poor countries. Participation has emerged in response to global …

Public opinion research indicates that most people espouse egalitarian ideals and
acknowledge substantial income inequality in society, but they consistently perceive the …

A separate and distinct interaction with both the actual e-vendor and with its IT Web site
interface is at the heart of online shopping. Previous research has established, accordingly …

This paper aims to predict consumer acceptance of e-commerce by proposing a set of key
drivers for engaging consumers in on-line transactions. The primary constructs for capturing …

How do organizations make strategic choices during the time of fundamental institutional
transitions such as those sweeping numerous emerging economies? To answer this …

We are living in a defining moment, when the world in which teachers do their work is
changing profoundly. In his latest book, Hargreaves proposes that we have a one-time …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between supplier trust in the buyer and
transaction costs and information sharing in a sample of 344 supplier-automaker exchange …

Because it provided the dominant framework for" development" of poor, postcolonial
countries, modernization theory ranks among the most important constructs of twentieth …

The proposition that natural resources need protection from the destructive actions of people
is widely accepted. Yet communities have shown in the past and increasingly today that they …

Objectives. I sought to examine whether pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use neighborhoods
encourage enhanced levels of social and community engagement (ie, social capital) …