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considerable group of industry experts to providean overview of the situation in both the US and Alberta markets, as well as … forecastsfor a variety of forest products.The recent challenges facing the Alberta forest industry have sparked renewedinterest in …
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existing patterns of successful competition. A review of the extant literature and research about innovation and … innovation and entrepreneurship in the industry. It also sought to explore options for improving practice through interventions … which would accelerate the development of firm innovation capabilities and a culture of innovation more broadly across the …
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innovation intensity shows that the innovative behaviour of food companies significantly deviates from other manufacturing … imitation and product modification strategies. Therefore, they realize an average innovation output without spending the same … industry have a higher innovation activity in terms of both innovation input and output. The impact of business expectations on …
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innovation while conserving the linkages between the past and the future. "This paper is based upon ethnobotanical and … northwestern Ontario, Canada. The purpose of this paper is to develop some working terminology and a conceptual model to explore … of contemporary indigenous systems of resource management in a manner that allows for innovation and self- determination …
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/processes a firm has at different stages of the innovation spectrum. A model is developed to regress this measure on several … determinants of innovation. Significant drivers of innovation include: collaborative arrangements, transfer of intellectual …
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This paper develops a framework that analyzes how mergers and acquisitions in Alberta’s oil and gas industry affect …
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There are hundreds of thousands of crude oil and natural gas wells across North America that are currently not producing oil or gas. Many of these wells have not been permanently decommissioned to meet environmental standards for permanent closure, but are in an inactive state that enables them...
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Standard economic intuition of revealed preference implies that when two parties freely enter into a contract then neither should be worse off. In this study, we develop a simple model showing that introducing the opportunity to contract can lower welfare for some, and perhaps all, contracting...
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The food industry faces many significant risks from public criticism of corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues in the supply chain. This paper draws upon previous research and emerging industry trends to develop a comprehensive framework of supply chain CSR in the industry. The framework...
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