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Does Good Personnel Management Practices give Agribusiness Firms a Competitive Advantage?

Mugera, Amin W. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010

attention in the strategic management literature as a useful framework to analyze the significance of human resources in … achieving sustained competitive advantage. However, there are few labor management studies in agribusiness that have used the … RBV to provide evidence of a substantial relationship between any particular personnel management practice and competitive …

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In the Land of Milk and Money: One Dairy Farm's Strategic Compensation System

Graham, Mary E.; Welsh, Rick; Mueller, George - In: Journal of Agribusiness 15 (1997) 2

Farm business need to attract, retain and motive valuable workers, and meet productivity and quality goals in order to achieve their strategic objectives. Willow Bend Farm, a dairy operation run by the Muller family in upstate New York, created and implemented a strategic compensation system to...

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Values, attitudes, and goals of future Hungarian food engineers

Hajdu, Istvanne; Lakner, Zoltan - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics (2008) 108

Over the last few decades Hungarian higher education has been radically transformed, and this transformation was implemented to counter the backwardness that previously plagued the education system. Agricultural education in particular was part of this transformation process, which included the...

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Organization and Strategy of Farmer Specialized Cooperatives in China

Hu, Yamei; Huang, Zuhui; Hendrikse, George W.J.; Xu, Xuchu - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

A description and analysis of China's Farmer Specialized Cooperatives is presented. Data is presented regarding the historical development of farmer cooperatives in China, the membership composition of a sample of 66 farmer cooperatives in the Zhejiang province, and the various attributes...

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Analysing Linkages between Strategy, Performance, Management Structure and Culture in the Spanish Fresh Produce Industry

Martinez, Marian Garcia; Poole, Nigel D. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 07 (2004) 04

strategy, management style, organisational structure and performance in the Spanish fresh fruit and vegetable (fresh produce …

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Saskatchewan Wheat Pool

Painter, Marvin J. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 07 (2004) 03

In 1996, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool embarked on a strategy for growth and diversification by significantly expanding its asset base. This expansion brought with it many new costs, especially new fixed costs such as interest and depreciation. They failed to achieve the new revenues needed to support...

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Those Most Likely: Identifying Food Processing Firms With Export Potential

Philp, Norman E. - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 11 (2003)

management and firm-specific determinants of a firm's export orientation. This model was able to predict the probability of a … firm being an "active exporter" with an accuracy of over 84%. The major management attitudes and attributes that appeared … to strongly influence whether or not a firm became an active exporter were its management's willingness to commit …

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An Assessment of Communication Technology and Social Media Adoption

Park, John L.; Murch, Matthew P. - In: Journal of Food Distribution Research 44 (2013) 1

including social media. The survey categorized 105 different cooperatives by current technology use and management practices …

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The Cultural Ecology Protection and Management of Urban Forests in China

ZHANG, Ying; SONG, Weiming; CHEN, Ke; GUO, Chunjing - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 09

management. The development planning of urban forest development should be strengthened to highlight the organic combination of …

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Will Crop Insurance Make Payments in 2014?

Schnitkey, Gary - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, …

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