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Cooperation Costs and the Economics of Intergovernmental Partnerships

Adelaja, Soji; Racevskis, Laila A. - 2005

Increasingly, state and local governments are promoting intergovernmental coordination, cooperation, and/or outright consolidation (3Cs) based on the perceived economies of scale advantages of such joint actions. However, the growing public finance and political science literature on...

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Input Substitution in the Spanish Food Industry

Alarcon, Silverio - 2005

Firm panel data sets over the period 1993 to 2002 are used to estimate translog production functions with labour, capital and material inputs for 9 Spanish food industries. To tackle the endogeneity of the regressors, the generalized method of moments estimations is employed. The specification...

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Heterogeneous Production Efficiency of Specialized Swine Producers

Tonsor, Glynn T.; Featherstone, Allen M. - 2006

This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-feeder, feeder-to-finish,...

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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills

Thapa, Sridhar - 2007

This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...

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The roles of Categorization Theory and confirmation bias in Australian owned brands

Cheah, Isaac; Phau, Ian - 2008

The paper proposes a research framework to study the influence of country of origin cues, consumer economic nationalistic and consumer ethnocentric tendencies toward product judgement of and the willingness to buy Australian brands. Categorization theory, confirmation bias and schema congruity...

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Design infrastructure: Australian developments

Love, Terence - 2005

The paper reports preliminary findings from research into Australia's design infrastructure. Design infrastructure …The research indicated that there exist significant weaknesses in Australia's design infrastructure. By implication and … suggestions for organisational and funding initiatives to improve Australia's design infrastructure in ways that will enable …

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A Classification of Factors Influencing Participation in Collusive Tendering Agreements

Zarkada-Fraser, Anna; Skitmore, Martin - 1998

construction organisations in Australia. First, the respondents’ perceived impact of the list of variables on their expressed …

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Identifying the determinants of construction innovation

Manley, Karen - 2006

This exploratory paper examines the drivers and obstacles to construction innovation. It is based on a large-scale survey of nearly 400 businesses in the Australian construction industry conducted in 2004, and twelve in-depth case studies of innovation on Australian construction projects between...

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Effective Financial Incentive Mechanisms: An Australian Study

Rose, Timothy; Manley, Karen - 2007

The use of financial incentives in construction projects has been seen as a way to improve short term motivation, collaboration and reinforce long term commitment between project stakeholders. Yet, very little empirical research has been conducted into how financial incentives should be applied...

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Assessing the value of different business strategies to innovation by firms in the construction industry

Manley, Karen; McFallan, Stephen; Swainston, Mike; … - 2008

This original empirical research was conducted to explore the relationship between business strategies and innovation implementation by project-based firms. The relative importance of five types of business strategies was assessed, concerning: (1) employees, (2) marketing, (3) technology, (4)...

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