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Qualitätsmanagement im Agribusiness : Konzeptionelle Stärken-Schwächen-Analyse und methodische Weiterentwicklung
Peupert, Martina - 2006
BSE, MKS und Nitrofen waren die Schlagworte, die zu Beginn des 21. Jh. eine politische Agrarwende in Deutschland einleiteten. Es wurde deutlich, dass die primär unter staatlicher Verantwortung getragene Lebensmittelüberwachung lückenhaft war und neue Lösungswege eingeschlagen werden mussten....
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E-Publishing im wissenschaftlichen Umfeld: Qualitätssicherung und Nutzungsszenarien
Roth-Steiner, Roland - 2008
Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines qualitätsorientierten Beschreibungsmodells für Nutzungsszenarien in E-Publishing und E-Learning. Wichtige Trends wie die Transparenz und Offenheit von Formaten, Strukturen und Prozessen werden einbezogen (Open...-Bewegung), ebenso die Frage nach...
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An Examination of Quality Management in Luxury Hotels.
Sila, Ismail; Ebrahimpour, Maling - 2003
The purpose of this case study was to analyze and compare the total quality management (TQM) practices of three luxury hotels. Leadership, guest and market focus, and information and analysis emerged as the three most significant TQM factors successfully implemented in these three hotels. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452191
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: The role of education revisited
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - 2005
This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...
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Factors Affecting Biotechnology Innovation in Canada: Analysis of the 2001 Biotechnology Use and Development Survey
van Moorsel, Daryl; Cranfield, John A.L.; Sparling, David - 2005
/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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The Impact of Alternative Market Orientation Strategies on Firm Performance: Customer versus Competitor Orientation
Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - 2010
Research studies have differed over the importance of the relative emphasis of a customer versus competitor orientation in the development of a market orientation (Slater and Narver, 1994; Tajeddini, 2010). In this study, we assess whether the emphasis of one component over another of a market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446154
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Positional Advantage within Small Farms: Evidence from Illinois
Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - 2009
recently, scholars have studied the effect of these concepts in agriculture. Extending the literature of market orientation in … agriculture, this study examines the concept of a positional advantage and its effect on performance using a sample of small farms … orientation, entrepreneurship, innovation and learning are first-order indicators of positional advantage and that the positional …
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