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Economic and Social Satisfaction in Marketing Channels: The Impact of Influence Strategies in an African County
(2010-06-17)
This article seeks, among others, to empirically validate the theory proposed by Geyskens et al. (1999) on the impact of influence strategies on economic and social satisfaction in the context of an African Country. New ...
Food Prices in South Africa: Why Most People Can't Afford to Eat a Healthy Diet
(2011-03-30)
Foods with a high content of fat, sugar, and refined cereals are typically cheap but are poor in nutrients and heavy with calories. By contrast, such foods as fish, vegetables, and fruit are richer in nutrients but are ...
The Struggle for Rights at Work: Electrical Workers, Shop-Floor Action and Industrial Legality, 1940s-1960s
(2010-06-23)
One of the central elements of post-World War II Canadian labour legislation is the ban on strikes and lockouts during the term of a collective agreement. Unions and employers are expected to settle any disputes over ...
Connecting Learners in Self-Paced Undergraduate Study: Practitioner Cases
(2014-01-16)
Enabling students to take responsibility for and make choices about aspects of their learning is an important affordance of distance education. Distance learners determine the time and place for their studies—those engaged ...
An Italian Jesuit in Canada: Faith and the Imagination in the 'Breve Relatione' of 1653
(2010-06-23)
Bressani published his Breve Relatione in Italian in 1653.
He had spent the years 1642 to 1650 in New France as a Jesuit missionary. As a Jesuit he was aware of the expansion of the European powers in the New World: ...
Reconstructing History in Vassanji's 'The Magic of Saida'
(2014-01-16)
M.G. Vassanji's novel, The Magic of Saida (2012) deals with the return journey of Kamal Punja, a Canadian medical doctor searching for his past in Africa. The novel has two narrators: The first is Kamal who recalls the ...
Vancouver Community Land Trust Foundation: Examining a model for long-term housing afordability
(2015-06-03)
This case study examines the Vancouver Community Land Trust Foundation (Land Trust), a project being implemented in Vancouver, BC by a consortium of non-profit organizations, social finance1 institutions and the municipal ...
The Sherbrooke School of Comparative Canadian Literature
(2011-03-30)
In the 1970s some academics and creative writers at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec developed a new approach to the study of Canadian literature in both English and French which went on to have a profound influence ...
Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability - Sellsheet
(2016-04-11)
The book presented in this sellsheet and recently published by Athabasca University Press examines the potential of the social economy to transform the systems that make our current ways of life unsustainable. The book ...
Barriers to Participation in the Unleashing Local Capital Project
(2016-06-14)
Unleashing Local Capital (ULC) was initiated and is managed by the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA). The project empowers rural Alberta communities to invest locally, direct their own economic development ...