The Service Quality or Gap model (SERVQUAL) has been recognised as an essential tool in identifying service quality and further than this the relationship between a company and its customers. This is vital for firms in sustaining existed advantage and ability to grow further. The purpose of this paper is to identify how applicable the model can be in the context of family owned restaurants and ...

Traditional forest-management practices are currently being scrutinised. Forest certification may verify sustainable development in primary forest production. However, of privately owned lands cannot be taken for granted, as it is associated with the demands and challenges management. Despite these challenges, some private owners chose to certify their operations. The aim this study explain mot...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t There is considerable variation across countries in both the extent to which large publicly listed firms are family-owned and the dominance of such family-owned firms in stock markets. The literature presents competing theoretical viewpoints on what influences such country-level variation. On one hand, institutional economists suggest that institutional voi...

Planting non-food bioenergy crops on marginal lands is an alternative bioenergy development solution in China. Native non-food bioenergy plants are also considered to be a wise choice to reduce the threat of invasive plants. In this study, the impacts of climate change (a consensus of IPCC scenarios A2a for 2080) on the potential distribution of nine non-food bioenergy plants native to China (v...

The extent and distribution of global forests is a matter of considerable concern. The overall rate of deforestation remains high although recent reports suggest it is fi nally beginning to decline (FAO 2011 ) . But this hides regional differences. In temperate regions net forest cover is increasing because of afforestation and natural expansion of forests. By contrast, net forest cover in most...

In this paper we consider the classical problem of dividing a land among many agents so that everybody is satisfied with the parcel she receives. In the literature, it is usually assumed that all the agents are endowed with cardinally comparable, additive, and monotone utility functions. In many economic and political situations violations of these assumptions may arise. We show how a family of...

Does the intensification of agriculture reduce cultivated areas and, in so doing, spare some lands by concentrating production on other lands? Such sparing is important for many reasons, among them the enhanced abilities of released lands to sequester carbon and provide other environmental services. Difficulties measuring the extent of spared land make it impossible to investigate fully the hyp...

This article shows that the state has authority to control land as a legal subject on behalf of people or in public interest. The normative rules law, both Indonesian law and Islamic have same perspective, positioning who can land. In is landing whose owner not known there no sign having been owned by person was conquered. Meanwhile, context all within territory Republic which known. characteri...