Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development by Ghauri Pervez N.;Fu Xiaolan;Väätänen Juha;

Author:Ghauri, Pervez N.;Fu, Xiaolan;Väätänen, Juha;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

2. Salient Findings of the Literature on Bt Cotton

2.1. Methodology and Query

In order to identify the drivers and outcomes of Bt cotton adoption, a research query with the terms “Bt AND cotton AND adoption” was applied on SCOPUS, the standard abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. The search was limited to articles, in the social sciences, economics, econometrics, and/or finance subject areas. Articles were manually filtered for fit with the research query. Five broad themes were identified: economics of farming, noneconomic returns to farmers, institutional impact on farmer, systemic economic impact, and systemic ecological impact. All articles seemed to implicitly assume that the objective of the farmer was to maximize profit. Thereafter, a meta-analysis of the abstracts was carried out to answer four questions:

What are the drivers of adoption of Bt cotton?

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