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Disentangling the relationships between denomination of origin regulatory councils activities and Spanish wineries' export performance

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges.
Nicolás Depetris‐Chauvin, Marta Fernández‐Olmos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empresarios y política en Colombia: un estudio de caso del gobierno Samper (1994 - 1998).

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2002
This article analyzes the failure of Colombian business to maintain an effective collective response to the crisis unleashed by the drug-scandal surrounding the administration of President Ernesto Samper (1994-1998). The article suggests that the failure
Angelika Rettberg.
doaj  

The Structure of Intra-Group Ties: Innovation in Taiwanese Business Groups [PDF]

Business groups are a network form of multi-business firm that play central economic and technological roles in many emerging economies. We draw from the technology studies literature, complemented by concepts from studies of organizational networks, to ...
Chung, Chi-Nien, Mahmood, Ishtiaq, Mitchell, Will   +2 more
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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Business Groups in Russia

, 2010
This article tracks the evolution of Russian business groups since their emergence during privatization in the 1990s and the restructuring and consolidation that followed. As in other economies, the growth of business groups in Russia has been a natural response to multiple market and government failures that gave rise to “institutional economies of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Business Groups and Profit Redistribution: A Boon or Bane for Firms [PDF]

This study investigates how profit redistribution affects the performance of firms affiliated to business groups.It shows that inefficient profit redistribution causes group-affiliated firms to perform poorly relative to independent firms.This ...
Douma, S.W., George, R., Kabir, M.R.
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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang, Wanglin Ma, Mengling Diao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversification, Propping and Monitoring - Business Groups, Firm Performance and the Indian Economic Transition [PDF]

The industrial landscape of many emerging economies is characterized by diversified business groups. Given the well-known costs of diversification, their prevalence in emerging economies is a puzzle that has not been completely resolved.
Jayati Sarkar, Raja Kali
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Determinants of local food producer participation in state‐sponsored marketing programs: Evidence from Missouri

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
wiley   +1 more source