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"This book explores viewpoints and research on various business enterprises from around the world in companies of all sizes and models, discussing different aspects and concerns in the global business environment such as corruption, taxation, supply chain management, and economic impacts."

AbstractAs the supply chain environment is increasingly becoming uncertain and globally competitive, reverse logistics (RL) practices, which constitute a substantial component of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM), have been widely recognized as crucial in achieving sustainable competitive advantage. While past studies have proven the positive relationship between properly implemented RL and firm's environmental efficiency and overall competitiveness, developing, maintaining, and integrating RL into the organization's supply chain operations come at a cost and institutional commitment. This study seeks to provide evidence on how RL and organizational culture (OC) provide benefits specifically to the operational performance (OP) of an organization. The study addresses this, first, by an empirical examination of the direct effects of RL practices on firm OP and, then, by further examining whether RL practices' influence on OP is strengthened by OC. The study uses dataset gathered from 213 firms across the service and manufacturing sectors in the Ghanaian economy using a structured questionnaire. The study adopts confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in addition to partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS‐SEM) in analysing the study's measurement model and in estimating the resultant structural model. The study concludes that implementing RL practices positively influences the OP of the firm, while OC strengthens such influence. This study expands the RL literature by obtaining the results for the conceptual model and dealing with the implication from a developing economy's perspective, hence supplementing the growing body of knowledge.

A position paper on how land can be utilized as a resource to enhance female and youth employment opportunities as well as ensure food security / poverty reduction in the case of Zimbabwe. ; Land is regarded as the primary natural capital for both economic development and poverty reduction. In its unexploited form, land can only generate limited rent as a natural resource. As an asset, the economic value of land is an imputed value. However, for the youth, the poor and other vulnerable groups, the social value of land carries the hope of uplifting them from poverty. Globally, unemployment among the youth has brought forth the debate on how land can play a central role in mitigating one of the most intractable problems of modern society. Zimbabwe's land reform has not only addressed landlessness and crammed settlement, but has raised hopes for poverty reduction among the unemployed youth and women. For the youth, the land reform in Zimbabwe had limited direct benefit at individual level. It mainly benefitted, among others, the age groups that actively participated in the liberation war and the politically active. The land reform resulted in the resettlement of well over 260 000 individuals and families. The reform process did not, however, prioritise allocation of land to vulnerable groups such as the youth and poor. Long spells of unemployment among the youth, both male and female, have brought forth the debate on the role of agriculture in addressing youth unemployment. In developing countries, youth unemployment and poverty are covariate with landlessness. Access to land by the youth and women remains an unexplored territory with the potential to address the problems of unemployment and poverty. Although traditionally the youth become of age on marriage and in rural areas it opens up access to a piece of land for subsistence farming, there has been very little consideration of extending those 'rights' in accessing larger pieces of land for agriculture.