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Co-innovation: what are the success factors?

Bremmers, Harry J.; Sabidussi, Anna - 2009

bring in complementary capabilities: technical,marketing, financial and organizational. Project governance should therefore …

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Industry, firm, year, and country effects on profitability: Evidence from a large sample of EU food processing firms

Schiefer, Jan; Hartmann, Monika - 2009

This paper analyzes the variance in accounting profitability within the European food industry. Based on a large panel data set, the variance in return on assets (ROA) is decomposed into year, country, industry, and firm effects. Further on, we include all possible interactions between year,...

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Impacts of Retailers’ Pricing Strategies for Produce Commodities on Farmer Welfare

Li, Chenguang; Sexton, Richard J. - 2009

The typical model of retail pricing for produce products assumes retailers set price equal to the farm price plus a certain markup. However, observations from scanner data indicate a large degree of price dispersion in the grocery retailing market. In addition to markup pricing behavior, we...

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WHERE IS BASMATI RICE COMING FROM? A GLOBAL TRADE–RELATED OVERVIEW

Giraud, Georges; Pirzada, Syed Wajid H. - 2009

Rice contributes on 20% towards human calorie intake of the world population and 30% of Asian population. Worldwide paddy rice crop was 668 million tonnes in 2008, while rice trade during the year was 30 million tonnes. Trade represents 7% of overall rice cropping. Basmati rice export counts for...

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Improving the Quality of Women’s Gold in Mali, West Africa: The Case of Shea

Perakis, Sonja Melissa - 2009

-sector-development and rural-poverty-alleviation programs and strategies. Information asymmetry in the production and marketing of shea has …

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Values as driving forces of culture-specific consumption patterns – an empirical investigation of wine consumers

Rewerts, Astrid Lucie; Hanf, Jon Henrich - 2009

Nowadays, consumers do not just consider the functional use of a product important, but also the emotional experiences a product is able to provide. These emotional experiences are sated with non-material elements of a product whose accordant importance depend on the values held by consumers....

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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008

Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...

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Developments and Development Directions of Electronic Trade Platforms in US and European Agri-Food Markets: Impact on Sector Organization

Fritz, Melanie; Hausen, Tobias; Schiefer, Gerhard - 2004

Electronic trade platforms support trading transactions between enterprises. They have entered the business landscape including the agri-food sector only a few years ago. However, there already have been dramatic changes in the agri-food sectors platform infrastructures. This paper analyzes...

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Testing Theories of Cooperative Arrangements in Agricultural Markets: Results from Producer Groups in Poland

Banaszak, Ilona - 2007

The main question posed in the paper asks why do some cooperative arrangements in agricultural markets survive and succeed and others fail? We define success and factors affecting success of cooperation using transaction costs theory and game theory. Transaction costs theory provides...

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Strategic Interactions, Risks and Coordination Costs in Food Marketing Channels: The Mediating Role of Futures Markets

Kuwornu, John K.M.; Kuiper, W. Erno; Pennings, Joost M.E.; … - 2006

We examine the interaction of marketing channel members and the influence of these interactions on incentives …, coordination costs, and risk allocation strategies in a food marketing channel. For this purpose we specify a three-stage principal …-agent marketing channel model involving producers, wholesalers, retailers and a futures market. We compare the situation with and …

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