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Influencing factors of profit and profitability of agricultural largefirms in the Omsk region, Russia
Schulze, Eberhard; Tillack, Peter; Patlassov, Oleg - 2002
profitability of Russian enterprises in the region of Omsk. Based on the finalyearly reports of the enterprises it is shown, that in … this article only the gross profit, or the profitability of the grossprofit are discussed. For the year 2000, the average … profitability of the gross profit of the examinedenterprises amounted to 2,0 %. The profitability on the basis of the profit before …
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Regional differences in agricultural profitability, government payments, and farmland values: Implications of DuPont expansion.
Mishra, Ashok K.; Moss, Charles B.; Erickson, Kenneth W. - 2009
impact of government payments on farmland values through its impact on farm profitability. Design …/methodology/approach - Businesses use the DuPont model to analyze the profitability of a business. This model includes three components: net profit … government payments on the asset turnover ratio. Findings - The analysis focuses on agricultural profitability in the ten …
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The Relative Impacts of U.S. Bio-Fuel Policies on Fuel-Energy Markets: A Comparative Static Analysis.
Kim, C.S.; Schaible, Glenn; Daberkow, Stan - 2010
Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximization models for...
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Profit patterns across American agriculture.
Blank, S.C.; Erickson, K.W.; Moss, C.B. - 2005
study examines spatial relationships in agriculture's profitability over time. Results show temporal and spatial convergence …
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity
Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008
We study the fine-grained relationships among information flows, IT use,and individual information-worker productivity, by analyzing work at amidsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level andindividual-level performance using: (1) direct observation of over125,000 e-mail...
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Which Came First, IT or Productivity? The Virtuous Cycle of Investmentand Use in Enterprise Systems
Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Wu, D.J. - 2008
While it is now well established that IT intensive firms are moreproductive, a critical question remains: Does IT cause productivity orare productive firms simply willing to spend more on IT? We address thisquestion by examining the productivity and performance effects ofenterprise systems...
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The Impact of CO2 Emission Cuts on Income
Zhao, Xiaobing - 2011
We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The importance of this question is manifested in the disagreements at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United...
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