Empowerment is a multidimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives. It is a process that fosters power (that is the capacity to implement) in people for use in their own lives, their own communities and in their own society, by acting on issues that they describe as important. Above all, empowerment is a result of participation in decision-making. Thenceforth, ...

The present study aims to design an international academic entrepreneurship model using grounded theory. The study population is a group of key Iranian informants, faculty members, and doctoral graduates with scientific expertise and work experience in the field of entrepreneurship, especially academic entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship, and managers of knowledge-based academic...

BACKGROUND People living with chronic kidney disease will require renal dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life. Although Indonesia has a developing healthcare industry, Indonesia's kidney transplant rates are lower than comparable nations. PURPOSE To explore the healthcare literature to identify barriers to kidney transplants in particular in relation to Indonesia. METHODS Healthc...

Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can have dramatic impact on poverty alleviation for rural women and for achieving socio economic development goals. Rural women need to treat ICTs as an empowerment tool and a means to a living. The use of mobile communication devices and internet are changing the way agricultural activities are managed by farmers nowadays. Rural women...

Purpose – To help shape a more cohesive research program in marketing and consumer research, this paper presents a systematic effort to integrate current research on consumer empowerment with highly influential theories of power. A conceptual overview of power consisting of three dominant theoretical models is developed onto which is mapped existing consumer empowerment research. Design/methodo...

Abstract Women with disabilities have experienced double marginalisation. As women, they remain marginalised by patriarchal culture and religious conservatism, as persons disabilities, their participation in social, political, economic, cultural life has been constrained the state society’s barriers. Even though Indonesia ratified Convention on Elimination of All Forms Discrimination Against Ri...

1. introduction the significance of rural women’s proportion in human work force is not only in indoor affairs, but also in productive outdoor activities. regarding the fact that women are both involved in indoor and outdoor activities, it is worthy to exactly determine their proportion in economic and social activities. on the other hand, since rural women of different parts of iran are involv...