Conceptualisation of voice in the majority world (developing and emerging economies) should avoid simply using the lens of the minority world (advanced economies). Yet, both can benefit from taking a multidisciplinary approach.

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It is widely known that disabled people face discrimination in all walks of life, including employment. Unfortunately, legal protection often does not work as well as hoped, especially in emerging markets. This leads to the core objective of this study: to understand why firms might not discriminate against disabled people. Rather than simply identifying islands of non-discrimination or best practice, we seek to better understand what has made them so and how much this might be replicable, taking account of legal regulation, firm policy and managerial choice. The qualitative findings reveal how non-discrimination is underpinned by an interplay between business and moral case influences and interaction between country of domicile and origin structural effects. Building on transaction cost economics, theoretical insights are afforded on this dynamic process. Although it is often assumed that multinational enterprises infuse best practices from abroad, nondiscrimination in most instances followed country of domicile managerial choice, which in turn represented a mix of altruism and expediency. We posit that a lack of direction from headquarters might be because disability rights were assigned a somewhat low priority at central organizational level.

The article reviews the main aspects, parameters and effects integrated by smart agriculture. An analysis of the main definitions of the “smart agriculture” concept is drawn, and, a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture is modeled on that basis. The specific benefits from the cyber-physical systems in the agricultural production process are also defined by taking into account the actual prerequisites, factors and indicators related to smart-based agriculture. The main restrictive conditions are generated, as well as the managing parameters and the criterion for optimality of the model of a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture. At the same time, the architecture of a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture is described, while there are the specific mathematical variables integrated in it from the optimization task set in the model. Highlighted are the specific activities performed by each structural element of a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture, where their practical-and-applied benefits and efficiency are also defined, which ultimately leads to achieving the set optimization criterion – maximum return of the invested financial resources.