America is filled with tales of people who held jobs as cash-register clerks at Wal-Mart, or on the diaper-making line at Procter & Gamble, who survived on their wages but have made fortunes through steady accumulation of company stock in retirement plans.The recent implosion of Enron, however, has focused attention on the risks to employees of such non-diversification.
However, the major reason for the shortage of domestic energy supply may not be unconnected to the overdependence on oil and non-diversification of energy resources in the country.
For the sake of convenience, in this study both off-farm and non-farm diversification activities (Ellis 1998) considered just as non-farm activities.
In the sixties, Rupert Thompson, of Textron, liked "non-related diversification".
When they try to persuade investors, and often themselves, that synergies abound (that two and two equals not merely five but six or more) in their takeovers of firms engaged in activities that they know next to nothing about, companies prefer such euphemisms as multi-industry business or non-related diversification.
The bivariate probit model was employed to estimate the simultaneous adoption of agroforestry and non-farm diversification activities.
It found that potential funders' perceived motivations for equity crowdfunding include finance, non-finance, diversification, networking, support, etc.
Cheap energy and excessive public employment are inefficient, regressive, and often exclusive tools of distribution, with deleterious consequences for non-oil diversification, fiscal sustainability, and, in the long run, the potential of local societies to find a growth-oriented compromise between national workers and business.
Rather, the differentiation across habitats seems to be driven by non-allopatric diversification processes.
If this is true, tectonic processes and subsequent erosion have likely been important as stimuli for both adaptive and non-adaptive diversification in the Drakensberg.
The non-constant diversification rate was supported because the model assuming two rates fit better than the model assuming a single rate (ΔAIC2 rates vs. 1 rate = 9.161).
