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THE DEVELOPMENT, OPERATION, AND DISSOLUTION OF A VALUE-ADDED COOPERATIVE: UNITED SPRING WHEAT PROCESSORS

McKee, Gregory J. - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 2006

The United Spring Wheat Processors cooperative was formed in 1996 as a value-added processor of hard red spring wheat … McDonough, GA. Though the cooperative achieved some substantial successes, it ceased operations in 2003 due to persistent … technical failures. The circumstances that led to the closure of the cooperative can be used to extract important lessons for …

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The Failure of Northern Rock - A Multidimensional Case Study

Eisenbeis, Robert Allen; Taylor, Michael William; … - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...

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The Internet of Things, Legal Aspects: What Will Change (Everything)…

BARBRY, Eric - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 87, pp. 83-100

After the birth of the Internet, the rise of Web 2.0, here comes the Internet of Things. Internet has led us to adopt special law, digital economy law…Web 2.0 has urged us to rethink core legal concepts such as liability and ownership and introduce notions such as sharing and availability. The...

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Anyone's Game: Economic and Policy Implications of the Internet of Things as a Market for Services

SELBY, Jaclyn - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 87, pp. 21-40

Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked environment in which smart objects, called 'Things,' are imbued with identification data and micro-processing power to form an Internet of Things (IoT). Data production across the Internet continues...

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Halos Networks: A Competitive Way to Internet of-with Things

MANZALINI, Antonio; MINERVA, Roberto; GONÇALVES, Vânia - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 87, pp. 41-55

This paper presents Halos Networks as a competitive architectural paradigm for developing future Internet of-with Things. A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos...

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NEAR FIELS COMMUNICATIONS – FROM TOUCH TO TAP MARKETING

MITREA, Dan - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2014) 4, pp. 623-630

The Machine to Machine (M2M) Market, according to Digital Research (2012) was 121 bn. $ in 2010, and was estimated by Digital Research to be 948 bn. $ for 2020. The so-called non-connectivity revenue (no human implication) will rise from 3% in 2010 to 25% in 2017, meaning no human interaction...

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Smart Residential Buildings as Learning Agent Organizations in the Internet of Things

Schatten, Markus - In: Business Systems Research 5 (2014) 1, pp. 34-46

Background: Smart buildings are one of the major application areas of technologies bound to embedded systems and the Internet of things. Such systems have to be adaptable and flexible in order to provide better services to its residents. Modelling such systems is an open research question....

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Extending the Internet of Things

PRIVAT, Gilles - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 87, pp. 101-119

This article proposes a theoretical and practical extension of the IoT, taking in all "things" that can be sensed by sensors, without requiring them to be fitted with a tag or a digital network interface. These physical entities, whatever they may be (legacy appliances, passive items, subsets of...

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Internet of Things in Service Innovation

Xu, Xiangxuan - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 14 (2012) Special No. 6, pp. 698-719

The last decade has witnessed rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) literatures by scientists from technology domains such as computer science, telecommunication and engineering, but very few studies have been done by sociologists, and even fewer by economic geographers in service research....

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RFID—the “Next Step” in Consumer–Product Relations or Orwellian Nightmare? Challenges for Research and Policy

Slettemeås, Dag - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 32 (2009) 3, pp. 219-244

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