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Procurement: the transaction costs perspective in a globalising world
Butter, Frank A. G. den - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007
Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...
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Mobile phones and Mozambique traders : what is the size of reduced search costs and who benefits?
Zant, Wouter - 2019
We investigate to what extent the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique reduced transport costs and search costs, and thereby decreased spatial price dispersion and improved market efficiency. Estimations are based on data of transport costs of maize grain and maize market prices....
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Impact of mobile phones on staple food markets in Mozambique : improved arbitrage or increased rent extraction?
Zant, Wouter - 2017
I use the quasi experimental nature of the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique to estimate the impact of search costs on the dispersion of maize prices and transport costs. The introduction of mobile phone services from 1997 to 2009 explains a 4.5-11% percent reduction in price...
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Mobile phones and Mozambique farmers : less asymmetric information and more trader competition?
Zant, Wouter - 2018
We measure the impact of search costs on farmers' and traders' transaction prices in Mozambique by investigating to what extent the introduction of mobile phones has affected the margin between recorded maize producer and retail market prices, and by exploring if producers or traders benefit...
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Two birds with one stone : technology adoption and market participation through protection against crop failure
Zant, Wouter - 2022
Most sub-Sahara African agriculture is rainfed and the key production risk is crop failure due to drought or insufficient rains. Major strategies for households to protect against the risk of crop failure are livestock rearing and storage of home produced food. Next to drought, SSA agriculture...
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Emission pricing and capital replacement : evidence from aircraft fleet renewal
Jong, Gerben de - 2022
This paper empirically studies how emission pricing affects capital replacement and adoption of embodied environmental technology. A pricing policy encourages firms to accelerate retirement of old capital assets and replace them with newer more efficient assets, but this may crowd out...
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You've got email : a workflow management extraction system
Chaipornkaew, Piyanuch; Prexawanprasut, Takorn; … - 2017 - Revised: May 2017
Email is one of the most powerful tools for communication. Many businesses use email as the main channel for communication, so it is possible that substantial data are included in email content. In order to help businesses grow faster, a workflow management system may be required. The data...
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A generalized Email classification system for workflow analysis
Chaipornkaew, Piyanuch; Prexawanprasut, Takorn; Chang, … - 2017 - This version: revised July 2017
One of the most powerful internet communication channels is email. As employees and their clients communicate primarily via email, much crucial business data is conveyed via email content. Where businesses are understandably concerned, they need a sophisticated workflow management system to...
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A triptych inquiry : rethinking sustainability, innovation, and financial performance
Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2010
Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...
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Learning the value of Eco-Labels : the role of information in sustainable decisions
Hirmas, Alejandro; Engelmann, Jan - 2024
Sustainability ratings help consumers understand the environmental impact of their purchases. Such ratings have …. These results question the potential effectiveness of sustainability ratings for other products, such as food, where the … consumers use sustainability ratings when these ratings are dissociated from private benefit, i.e. product quality. Participants …
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