The forest owners' timber-selling satisfaction has been researched only a little even it can be considered as an essential feature in the timber-sales transactions. The satisfaction survey was conducted for the Finnish non-industrial private forest owners. Forest owners sent back 796 completed...

This paper analyzes the effects of using product costs derived from an LP-model for managing the salesmen's efforts at a sawmill company. The salesmen are not controlled by sales quota, as is usual, but assessed by the accounting profit they generate. The analysis is realized by a computer...

Selective logging operations in natural tropical forests often involve a very limited number of commercial tree species and if the density of these species is low, the number of trees felled may be only a few per ha. Consequently the costs of road and trail networks have a significant impact on...

Forest products trade flow data consists of two observations for each trade flow. The first observation is made by an exporting country A(concerning exports to importing country B) and the second observation is made by the importing country B(concerning imports from the previously mentioned,...

The knowledge of factors affecting the end-consumers choice of building material for specific purposes, i.e., the mechanisms of substitute competition, necessary to understand the competitive situation of wood, is limited. In this paper interviews of floorcovering customers and sales...

Based on the Johansen's cointegration method, this study analyses the convergence of the Finnish and Estonian coniferous prices and if there exist any long rum relationships between the wood assortments and species. The data is monthly time series from nominal delivery prices of spruce and pine...