... believe that the development of Barrow Island will result in irreversible damage to the islands native species and unique ecosystems. The project would permanently extract a non-renewable resource from an A class nature reserve while injecting millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. Such actions would jeopardise the islands biodiversity values if not lose them ... a new era of clean fuels in Australia. The Pilbara particularly has a good potential for sustained future economic development as it is considered to be WA's primary resource region. Economists see Developmen...

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... (Bhatti 2011). In all, the expertise may range from managing taxations to complying with market regulation. Additionally, it may include learning ways of acquiring resources. This is based on the Resource dependency theory, which suggests that businesses enter strategic alliance to access unavailable or rare resources. Gaining Competitive Advantage and Synergy Attaining competitive advantage and synergy is another economic logic that ... and collaboration within the alliance and controlling opportunism, the theory suggests that governance mechanism limiting self-serving behaviours or pa...

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... situations unfriendly to small farmers. When communal lands are privatized, as in Mexico and many places in Africa and Asia, increased competition can result in the collapse of community-based resource management systems, leading to accelerated land degradation. The introduction of the individual profit motive, sometimes linked with outside corporations, can produce a new short-term emphasis on extraction-like profit taking ... , where a protected modern sector generating high wages for a few coexisted with a growing informal sector characterized by low wages. Thus functional dualism was...

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... be a change in their perception and create new economic subjects. They perceive that this research and creating new community-based enterprises will help individuals within the community recognize the powerful resource of economic interdependence. James Ferguson and Larry Lohmann, in line with post-development theory, believe that development as a construct of the developed Western world has largely failed, pointing to the ... ...

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Since the First Industrial Revolution, technology has been a basic motor for economic growth. The management of technology as a resource for economic development and wealth generation is a recent phenomenon. The lessons from the utilization of technology over the past two decades are clear. Those who manage technology creatively and innovatively ... ...

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... and axioms, is attested to by his famed metal-cutting experiments which continued for some twenty-six years. His support for the democratization of knowledge is evidenced by the research center he and Morris Llewellyn Cooke established to provide city governments with the information they needed to combat public utilities that exploited their natural monopoly positions. The centrality of Taylor's commitment ... ...

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