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Purpose – The paper intends to identify and explain key managerial principles for vertical integration in the cattle industry during a key period of environment uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach – Following Yin's advice on using case studies for exploratory theory development, this...
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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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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the Gulin Gulin Buffalo Company (GGBC), an Indigenous wildlife enterprise, within a sustainable livelihoods framework and to understand the factors that have contributed to its success. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the likelihood of adoption of a recently designed Welfare Assessment System in agri‐food supply chains and the factors affecting the adoption decision. The application is carried out for pig and poultry chains. Design/methodology/approach –...
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study of a sustainable beef cooperative employing a structuration theory framework provides insights into sustainable supply …
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cooperative banks by examining other variables that have never been used before. It also seeks to examine bank performance before … cost efficiency; and cooperative banks in general at the beginning of the crisis were less influenced by the economic …
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), along with various forward contracts offered to cooperative members to manage the variability of milk revenues, have the … potential to improve cooperative‐, and ultimately member‐level risk‐return performance. Because most cooperatives have limited … access to equity capital, effective use of available risk management tools can increase cooperative value by increasing debt …
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/methodology/approach This paper shows what followed from a decision of a researcher to do an ethnography of a co-working cooperative established … despite its failure in the form of a bankruptcy, the co-working cooperative succeeded in enabling “social innovation” in the …
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in the north-west of England, a small food cooperative run by volunteers. Social capital comprises the bonds, bridges and … interactions between and within the three main stakeholder groups involved in the cooperative is presented. This model shows how …
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