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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use prediction markets to forecast an agricultural event: United States Department of Agriculture's number of cattle on feed (COF). Prediction markets are increasingly popular forecast tools due to their flexibility and proven accuracy to forecast a...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a research project at a safari park in Buckinghamshire, UK. The aim is to introduce lean principles to the park, to enable the park to increase profits through eliminating waste and improving the efficiency of key processes whilst...
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Purpose – Quality traits desired by consumers may not be adequately captured by beef industry standards associated with grid or value‐based pricing alone. Aims to demonstrate this shortcoming by examining strategies of selected companies in North America at the four supply chain levels of...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the development of the processed feed industry in China through the lens of one of its most successful and earliest entrants, the Hope Group's “New Hope” enterprise. With the feed industry in China now facing a transition phase, the paper...
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Purpose – Tree fodder is an important constituent of livestock feed in the mid‐hills of Nepal, particularly so during the dry winter. The purpose of this paper is to compare the ranking of tree fodders by indigenous goat raisers to the selectivity of fodder by goats....
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The controversy swirling around GMOs in rich countries should not obscure their potential to reduce poverty among poor farmers.
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/methodology/approach – Survey was done in two plants of the electronics industry in Estonia, Hungary and Finland. The survey was conducted in two … plants of the electronics industry in Estonia, Hungary and Finland, respectively: one produces telecommunications equipment …. Findings – The results of an empirical study in the three Finno‐Ugrian countries, Estonia, Finland and Hungary, indicate …
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Business and corporate culture in Hungary are undergoing a profound change. Although the first phase of transition to …
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Israel, the UK, and Hungary. After the teams in each of the organization's three sites were mapped out, 205 employees working …
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data from managers of firms in two countries, the USA and Hungary, for cross‐cultural comparison. Critical issues of …
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