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Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different … outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it is still unclearwhether companies stand to gain from outsourcing offshore … of labor in today's industries and the kinds of jobsthat are considered to be good candidates for offshore outsourcing …
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This study presents evidence that contracting is positively associated with the scale of production for six major U … likelihood of an operation contracting increases with its scale. This relationship is strongest in the cattle and hog sectors … scale and contracting are proposed, including imperfect capital markets, contractor transaction costs, input leverage …
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We develop a purchasing portfolio method by integrating a company view, a market-based view and a process view, aggregated in a 3-dimensional portfolio cube. Top management typically takes another view on purchasing issues than purchasing itself. Furthermore, it seems crucial to include the...
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Sicherstellung des Contracting-Angebotes der Immobilien- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH Adelsberg am Markt.Mittels verschiedener … Analysen wird die Vermarktung der Contracting-Dienstleistungen konzipiert. Mit Hilfe von verschiedenen … Kommunikationsinstrumenten soll den Kunden bzw. potenziellen Kunden Energieliefer-Contracting näher gebracht werden und diese dazubewegen, das …
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The rise of contract farming and vertical integration is one of the most important changes in modern agriculture. Yet the adoption and diffusion of these new forms of organization has varied widely across regions, commodities, or farm types, however. Transaction cost theories and the like are...
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We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa pork niche-marketing firms. We describe and analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges: planning and logistics, quality assurance, process...
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results are discussed with respect to business organizations, added costs, investments, crops, and contracting. …
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More than 50 percent of current farmers are over age 55, and the number of new farmers replacing them has fallen. This paper examines factors that contribute to the financial performance of new and beginning farmers in the U.S. A weighted regression analysis was used on data from the 2005...
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It is common for a retailer to sell products from competing manufacturers. How then should the firms manage their contract negotiations? The supply chain coordination literature focuses either on a single manufacturer selling to a single retailer or one manufacturer selling to many (possibly...
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This dissertation is composed of five chapters that investigate the extent and role of economic rent in distribution contracts between manufacturers and dealers. Manufacturers often devise contractual mechanisms that enable downstream dealers to earn economic rent. One such mechanism is the...
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