This book provides a genealogical study of Australian agricultural restructuring, focusing on the case study of wheat export market deregulation. This policy shift was implemented in 2008, ending 60 years of statutory wheat marketing. At the time, policy makers claimed that market liberalisation...

The Economics of European Agriculture explains the demand and supply characteristics of agricultural markets, as well as government intervention in agriculture, with an emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan also analyses the fifth enlargement and its...

The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies...

Part I. The Food and Agricultural Marketing System Overview -- 1. Evolution of Agricultural and Food Markets, Policies and Programs-Walter J. Armbruster, President Emeritus, Farm Foundation; and Ronald D. Knutson, Regents Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University -- 2. Expectations and Realities...

Chapter 1. Economic Transformation and Development Experience of Indian Punjab-An Introduction -- Section I: Understanding the Crisis of Agrarian Transition -- Chapter 2. The Role of Technological and Institutional Changes in the Growth and Transformation of Agriculture in Punjab -- Chapter 3....

This book is designed to scrutinize the Russian business sector in transition with special attention to firm organization, business integration, corporate governance, and company management. Using a unique dataset of Russian joint-stock companies, the authors empirically analyze key issues for...

De Lange suggests a new contextually linked building block model to develop theories of the firm in the field of strategy and organizations. Using this approach, she proposes two models: one that is a realistic American version and another that is a futuristic sustainable model. Both are new...

Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und in der Praxis Tätige, die ihr Wissen auffrischen und erweitern wollen, finden in diesem Buch Grundfragen betriebswirtschaftlicher Forschung erläutert. Dabei werden die Anwendungsvoraussetzungen und Quellen des Wissens hervorgehoben und gleichzeitig...

Können Sustainability Leader Überrenditen erzeugen? Und wenn ja, auf welche Art und Weise? Gunner Langer untersucht diese Fragen und verknüpft dabei die wissensbasierte Theorie der Unternehmung mit interdisziplinären Theorieelementen. Er zeigt die ökonomische Relevanz von...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Decision Theory Elements -- 3 Utility Function -- 4 State-Contingent Outcome and Preference -- 5 Preferences and Subjective Probabilities -- 6 Formulation of the Decision Problem -- 7 Connections Between Input and State-Contingent Output -- 8 Optimising Production...