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Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Customer service expectations in retail banking in Africa

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Business Management, 2010
There has been very little research on customer service in the African continent. This paper determines and analyses customer service expectations of 4035 clients in retail banking across 10 African countries.
G. Bick, R. Abratt, D. Möller
doaj   +1 more source

Water Pricing Models: a survey [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper surveys water pricing models, highlighting some important results. Efficiency rquires marginal cost pricing. Intra-annual price changes or customer differentiation to reflect differences in marginal costs can enhance efficiency.
Henrique Monteiro
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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Requirements Engineering for Machine Learning via a Product Case Study

open access: yesProceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
Requirements Engineering (RE) is a well-defined process in software development. Through customer requirement elicitation techniques, Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and the Functional Requirements (FRs) that implement them, are defined.
Lynn Vonderhaar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A cloud infrastructure for enabling provision of the Material Testing as a Service (MTaaS) [PDF]

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences
This paper focuses on a ‘cloud infrastructure’ (MTaaS) that has been developed to support and coordinate integrated services and supply chain management.
Yang Song, Al-Ahmad Manaf, Qin Yi
doaj   +1 more source

Retail sweep programs and bank reserves, 1994-1999 [PDF]

open access: yes
Since January 1994, the Federal Reserve Board has permitted depository institutions in the United States to implement so-called “retail sweep programs.” The essence of these programs is computer software that dynamically reclassifies customer deposits ...
Richard G. Anderson, Robert H. Rasche
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Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agent-Based Product Configuration: towards Generalized Consensus Seeking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper will present an evolution of a fuzzy agent based platform which performed products configuration. As a first step, we used the notion of consensus to establish robust results at the end of the configuration process.
Beroule, Benoît   +2 more
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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

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