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CO-OPERATING TO COMPETE IN HIGH VELOCITY GLOBAL MARKETS: THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF FLEXIBLE SUPPLY CHAIN ARCHITECTURES

Gow, Hamish R.; Oliver, Lance D.; Gow, Neil G. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2002

Continued value creation is paramount for the survival of firms competing in today's high velocity global business environment. This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding how firms can create and capture value within a highly volatile and uncertain business environment by...

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Invasive Weeds, Wildfire, and Rancher Decision Making in the Great Basin

Kobayashi, Mimako; Harris, Thomas R.; Rollins, Kimberly S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

In this article, a numerical stochastic dynamic programming model (SDP) is developed to characterize the decision problem of a rancher operating on rangelands in northern Nevada that are affected by invasive annual grasses and wildfire. The model incorporates decisions about herd size management...

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Selecting a Land Conservation Reserve for Local or Regional Ecosystem Health with Development: Amphibian Metapopulation and Residential Development

Jiang, Yong; Swallow, Stephen K.; Paton, Peter - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

literature has ignored the role habitat corridors could play in reserve network design. Based on modern ecological theory, the … network design improves the connectivity of the reserve system as required by population persistence in a highly fragmented …, heterogeneous landscape. This study explicitly incorporates the idea of habitat corridor into optimal reserve design, an approach …

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Land Use Change and Ecosystem Valuation in North Georgia

Ngugi, Daniel; Mullen, Jeffrey D.; Bergstrom, John C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008

A model of land allocation at the aggregate watershed level was developed assuming profit/net benefit maximization under risk neutrality. The econometric land use model was analyzed as an equation by equation SURE model as all the independent variables were the same for both equations. In...

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Pigs in Cyberspace: A Natural Experiment Testing Differences between Online and Offline Club-Pig Auctions

Roe, Brian E.; Wyszynski, Timothy E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

We find sale prices and net revenues received by sellers in the Midwestern club pig market are higher at traditional face-to-face auctions than at comparable Internet auctions. The comparison overcomes adverse selection issues that commonly plague such analyses by using data from sellers that...

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Tractors on eBay: Differences between Internet and In-Person Auctions

Diekmann, Florian; Roe, Brian E.; Batte, Marvin T. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

Internet auction platforms are changing the face of transactions in many business sectors, including agriculture. We provide one of the first systematic examinations of the differences between internet and in-person auctions in agricultural input markets. A hedonic model estimated with used...

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Are Food Exchange Websites the Next Big Thing in Food Marketing? A Latent Class Analysis.

Vassalos, Michael; Lim, Kar Ho - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

A Latent Class model is utilized to examine vegetable and livestock producers’ preferences for a number of different features offered by food exchange websites. The results indicate that growers are willing to pay on average $55.69 per month if an online marketplace is offered. Additionally,...

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Does E-Commerce Help Farmers’ Markets? Measuring the Impact of MarketMaker

Isengildina-Massa, Olga; Zapata, Samuel D.; Carpio, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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Rating the Web Sites of Land Grant Universities and State Departments of Agriculture

Phillips, Jon C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

For at least ten years, educational and government organizations have used the Internet to communicate with their respective clienteles. Land grant universities, departments of agricultural economics, and state departments of agriculture have launched web sites to achieve various communication...

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ADOPTION OF E-COMMERCE STRATEGIES FOR AGRIBUSINESS FIRMS

Henderson, Jason R.; Dooley, Frank J.; Akridge, Jay T. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2000

This paper analyzes the factors guiding Internet and e-commerce implementation by agribusiness firms. The relationship between Internet/e-commerce strategies and manager perceptions on the barriers and factors to e-commerce adoption are analyzed in a supply-chain management framework. Using...

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