The population of Africa will double in the next 33 years to reach 2.5 billion by 2050. Although roughly 60% of the continent’s population is engaged in agriculture, the produce from this sector cannot feed its citizens. Hence, in 2013 alone, Africa imported 56.5 million tons of wheat, maize, and soybean at the cost of 18.8 billion USD. Although crops cultivated in Africa play a vital role in t...

Whether it be a rugby team or a rescue crew, ensuring peak group performance is a primary goal during collective activities. In reality, however, groups often suffer from productivity losses that can lead to less than optimal outputs. Where researchers have focused on this problem, inefficiencies in the way team members coordinate their efforts has been identified as one potent source of produc...

Both theory and evidence suggest that diversity stabilises productivity in herbaceous plant communities through a combination of overyielding, species asynchrony and favourable species interactions. However, whether these same processes also promote stability in forest ecosystems has never been tested. Using tree ring data from permanent forest plots across Europe, we show that aboveground wood...

the current paper aims to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial marketing on innovation considering the moderating effect of two-factor learning orientation and organizational structure. then, the relationship between innovation and the marketing performance was assessed. in this research, sales and marketing managers of 42 sample companies were selected from three industries including: ind...

in this research we seek to recognize the status of marketing information systems and its weaknesses in medium and large size food industries. we abandoned all organization diagnosis models and conducted mcleod and rogers model as one of the most popular models in similar researches. since marketing affairs is more important and sensible in food industry than others, the research was done in th...

postmodernism leads to epochal changes in culture, technology, economic, art and other areas. management as a multidisciplinary science is being affected by this new paradigm. also, marketing as a dynamic area of management and due to communication with people and society being affected by culture and individuals' attitudes changes and especially postmodernism. many believe that postmodern...

Since the 1970s, services marketing has grown into a major sub discipline of marketing. It is constantly claimed – but is refuted in the article – that services are now the dominant economic activity in developed countries and keeps growing while the two traditional goods sectors, manufacturing and agriculture, are declining. In today's competitive world, having expertise, knowledge and marketi...

This paper examines the structure of the Korean package tour industry in Australia. Because of the demand by Korean consumers for cheap package tours, Korean tour wholesalers have lowered the wholesale package price to travel retailers to maintain market share. Rather than suffering a fall in profit from lower receipts, the Korean wholesale sector has forced the Inbound Tour Operator sector in ...