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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

IMPLEMENTATION OF BUSINESS PROCESSES IN SMART CITIES TECHNOLOGY

open access: yesResearch on Enterprise in Modern Economy Theory and Practice, 2015
The goal of the paper is to present the results of studies concerning the development of a method of implementation of business processes in Smart Cities systems.
Cezary Orłowski   +4 more
doaj  

Empowering Service Designers with Integrated Modelling Tools: A Model-Driven Approach

open access: yesSystems
Service design often involves using diverse business and process modelling notations to represent strategic and operational aspects of services. Although complementary, no modelling environment currently enables integrated use of these notations.
Francisco Javier Pérez-Blanco   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of Business Process Models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Processes modeling is done for a number of reasons in relation to enterprise modeling, business process modeling and information systems development, and is a widely used technique. In particular after the introduction of BPR and workflow in the nineties, much work has looked on quality of business process models.
openaire   +3 more sources

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling business processes in logistics with the use of diagrams BPMN and UML

open access: yesForum Scientiae Oeconomia, 2014
The paper researches the suitability and sufficiency of BPMN and UML languages in business process modelling in logistic. There were two exam- ples of process modelling: supply chain logistics and production logistics.
Dariusz Badura
doaj  

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Goal-Oriented Metropolis Ecosystem Development

open access: yesManaging Global Transitions
Enterprise architecture (EA) modelling is understood as a system of architecture defined in ISO42010 and EA is intended to ensure a holistic view of business organization. This study analyses the goal-oriented approach to EA development.
Małgorzata Pańkowska
doaj   +1 more source

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