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Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance: Do Mergers Improve Managerial Performance in the Post-Merger Period?
Feroz, Ehsan H.; Kim, Sungsoo; Raab, Raymond L. - 2005
"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468471
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Three Essays on Groundwater and Tenancy Contracts in Rural Economies
Steinmetz, Anne Margret - 2003
an exact description of the process of contracting and of the details of the groundwater contracts in order to make some … aversion of the contracting parties and the distribution function of the amount of rainfall.The third chapter deals with the … influence of the form of tenancy contracts on the efficiency of the tenant's input decision. Using data from fourteen villages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476213
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Entwicklung eines Marketingkonzeptes für die Immobilien- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH Adelsberg zur Einführung der Dienstleistung des Energieliefer-Contracting
Aust, Jessica - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434371
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Markets, Contracts, or Integration? The Adoption, Diffusion, and Evolution of Organizational Form
Sykuta, Michael E.; Klein, Peter G.; James, Harvey S. - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442917
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Business Organization and Coordination in Marketing Specialty Hogs: A Comparative Analysis of Two Firms from Iowa
Hueth, Brent; Ibarburu, Maro A.; Kliebenstein, James B. - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443102
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PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND SEGREGATION IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS: NON-GENETICALLY MODIFIED AND SPECIALTY CORN AND SOYBEAN CROPS IN IOWA
Miranowski, John A.; Jensen, Helen H.; Batres-Marquez, … - 2004
results are discussed with respect to business organizations, added costs, investments, crops, and contracting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443107
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Technology Adoption, Management Practices, and Financial Performance of New and Beginning Farmers: Evidence from a National Survey
Mishra, Ashok K.; Wilson, Christine; Williams, Robert P. - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445591
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Competing Manufacturers in a Retail Supply Chain: On Contractual Form and Coordination
Kok, A. Gurhan - 2010
to extract rents from the retailer, in theory allowing the manufacturer to leave the retailer with only her reservation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475398
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The Role and Extent of Economic Rent in Distribution Contracts.
Lo, Ho Fu Des - 2008
enterprises operating in China and elsewhere. Chapter 2 shows how, in theory, this ordering process enables manufacturers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476986
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Developing Relational Capital in Team-Based New Ventures.
Blatt, Ruth - 2008
This dissertation develops and tests a theory of how entrepreneurial teams develop relational capital – or … members’ needs – and contracting practices – the process of making expectations explicit and transparent – enable …-technology entrepreneurial teams. The findings suggest that communal relational schemas and contracting practices both are positively associated …
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