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Is Individual Behavior Oriented to Self-interest, Other-interest or both? Empirical Evidence from a Case Study of Social Capital

Zhang, Zhenyu; Lynne, Gary D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2006

While social capital is becoming mainstreamed in social science, much remains to be done to better understand its' nature. This is especially true for "What motivates the investment in social capital, and what affects the level of social capital?" An earlier paper by Robison, Schmid and Siles (...

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Do Leader and Organizational Characteristics Affect Scientist's Productivity? A Multilevel Analysis of Nigerian Agricultural Research System

Ragasa, Catherine; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Abdullahi, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Organizations offer employees with opportunities to cultivate their innovativeness and facilitate greater productivity. In this paper we analyze preconditions for individual productivity of agricultural researchers in Nigeria, measured in terms of the self-reported number of scholarly...

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Hedonic and Utilitarian Motives for Consumers’ Learning Processes: The GDA Food Label

Puspa, Jofi; Kuhl, Rainer - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

As one of the stimuli flows in the food market the GDA-labeling was established in 2007. The original concept of introducing this label was to provide information that may bring about more healthy eating patterns. Four years after launching it seems relevant to understand how well the consumers...

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DISPARITIES OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES AMONG URBAN INDUSTRIES -- AN EXPLORATORY APPROACH

Liang, Chyi-Lyi - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004

The results of an on-going exploratory study focused on disparities in entrepreneurial activities across 203 Metropolitan Statistical Areas among 18 industries in the US showed that there existed variations in the path of entrepreneurial development among MSAs and different industries. Resource...

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Livelihood Disruption and Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship as Technology Adoption, A Case of Tobacco Farmer in Kentucky

Khantachavana, Sivalai V.; Just, David R.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Entrepreneurship means making discrete changes in livelihood activities that involve substantial risks to income. While … entrepreneurship and technology adoption. Adopting a new production technology also involves substantial risks. The economics of … learning by using and learning by doing. We review the technology adoption literature, drawing out lessons for entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurial Programs: Which Contribute to Oklahoma Business Owners' Success?

Brooks, Lara; Whitacre, Brian E.; Muske, Glenn; Woods, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Replaced with revised version of poster 07/20/10.

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Too Connected to Fail: The Effect of Alliance Network Structure on Farm Survival

Kirwan, Barrett E.; Martens, Andrea - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Exogenous, unobserved factors often confound the effects of alliance networks. More capable farmers might be less likely to exit and more likely to have a large number of alliances. In this case the negative correlation between alliance network size and exit likelihood is due to the unobserved...

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Estimating Government Policy Preferences to Predict New Firm Formation

Mann, John T.; Shideler, David W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

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The Determinants of Self-Employed Income in a Regional Economy

Swindall, Devin C.; Willis, David B.; Boys, Kathryn A.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Supporters claim that entrepreneurship is critical to building and sustaining the regional economies of urban and rural … areas across the nation. Proponents argue that economic development practices that enhance and support entrepreneurship are …

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Direct and Indirect Effects of Cash Transfers on Entrepreneurship

Ribas, Rafael P. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …

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