In earlier debates on economic development, the agricultural sector’s role was somewhat controversial. While dualistic models highlighted the importance of agriculture, the mainstream literature placed a greater emphasis on the creation of a modern industrial sector. Soon agriculture disappeared from the mainstream development literature to re-emerge recently with a variety of multiple-sector g...

I want to start this paper from the premise that both academics in cultural and media studies, and left-wing political theorists and activists have found the everyday culture of the people in capitalist societies particularly difficult to study either empirically or theoretically. In this paper I wish, then, to interweave two lines of theoretical inquiry: one into the culture of everyday life w...

Background: Brucellosis (Malta fever) is a major contagious zoonotic disease, with economic and public health importance. Methods: To assess the effect of meteorological (temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind) and climate parameters on incidence of brucellosis, brucellosis distribution and meteorological zoning maps of Zanjan Province were prepared using Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) an...

In this article, we focus on tackling a relative research gap: how country distance (institutional, cultural, economic, and geographical distance) determines the entry mode choice between wholly-owned enterprises (WOEs) joint venture (JVEs) in context of “going global”. Based sample 439 multinational (MNEs) from 22 different nations that directly invested agricultural sector Vietnam period 1996...

In the idea of the “death of distance,” globalization discourse presents a picture of a world of global social and economic integration, declining cultural differentiation, spatial and temporal disembedding of social practices, and the economic primacy of dematerialized knowledge work. Nearshore software outsourcing, a subcategory of offshore software outsourcing in which the development center...