This paper investigates the perceptions of a diversity stakeholders supporting smallholders in eastern Brazilian Amazon about ecosystem services and agricultural practices. Our results come from 30 semi-structured interviews with key two contrasting municipalities this region (Paragominas Irituia). We identified 17 different 15 Using multidimensional scaling (MDS), we differentiated stakeholder...

We investigate differences in perception between management and staff with regard to the influence of critical success factors (CSFs) on security risk management (SRM) effectiveness at a Fortune 500 company. Nine CSFs are confirmed to exist in the organization. Management and staff agree that each CSF is important for SRM effectiveness, but differ on the level of importance of each CSF. With re...

The European Commission considers e-City initiatives a valuable tool in the establishment of inclusive Information Societies. Nevertheless, in many cases citizens seems not to participate. Many researchers suggest that the techno-economic perception of digital divide that possesses these initiatives impedes the formation of participative local Information Societies. This paper examines this sup...

The traditional perception of patents puts the emphasis on their importance to exclude imitators and to restore incentives to invent. This view is far too restrictive and at variance with many empirical and theoretical works. We show that these contradictions can be overcome by shifting from a traditional economic framework to a knowledge-based one. Such a move allows a renewed economic percept...

Using a laboratory experiment, we examine if third party redistribution from a “Have” to a “Have-not” is affected by (1) whether a Have’s advantage is in some way self-determined and (2) whether selfdetermination occurs in two dimensions compared to one dimension. We find that redistribution decreases if a Have earns an advantageous opportunity or earns income. But we also find that redistribut...