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Agriculture is a risky business contingent on risks and uncertainty. Without strong technical knowledge, farmers tend … conducted in 2014 and 2015 focusing on farmers' knowledge, skills and risk attitudes. It aims to provide an overview of the …, farmers' knowledge, management ability and agricultural productivity by using univariate and bivariate analyses. The results …
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In some countries around the world, the advantages of globalisation have been increasingly called into question recently. In particular, takeovers by foreign firms raise suspicions of technology theft and job cuts at the newly acquired local plant. By looking at Germany, as a large open economy,...
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knowledge: they do not require mutual understanding between the sender and the receiver as other forms of communication do. In … particular, the knowledge of both the team payoff function and the team organisation can be ordered according to hierarchical … derives the requirements in terms of knowledge of the members that follow from given structures of task assignment …
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How do geographic frictions affect firm organization? We show theoretically and empirically that geographic frictions increase the use of middle managers in multi-establishment firms. In our model, we assume that a CEO's time is a resource in limited supply, shared across headquarters and...
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How do geographic frictions affect firm organization? We show theoretically and empirically that geographic frictions increase the use of middle managers in multi-establishment firms. In our model, we assume that the time of the CEO of a firm is a resource of limited supply that is shared among...
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