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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
wiley   +1 more source

Analysing the actual cost work performance (ACWP) in the earned value concept (EVC) [PDF]

open access: yes
One of the important factors in The Earned Value Concept (EVC) or The Earned Value Management (EVM) is the Actual Cost Work Performance (ACWP). A Cost Variant (CV) is further produced from the ratio between ACWP and Budget Cost Work Performance (BCWP ...
Wisal, H.W.
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Investment Advice: Go for the MBA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Business school deans have been rushing to the defense of their graduate degree programs ever since Jeffrey Pfeffer and Christina Fong published their 2002 article questioning the value of an MBA. Not only did those authors debate the worth of the MBA in
Holtom, Brooks, Inderrieden, Edward
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Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integration of Lean Six Sigma into earned value management using system dynamics

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management
A Few Lean Six Sigma (LSS) papers were studied during the construction project’s progress. This study proposes the integration of LSS, system dynamics (SD), and earned value management (EVM) as a comprehensive toolkit for datadriven decision-making ...
Nasser Aljarallah   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who Are the Farmers Participating in a Carbon Sequestration Program? Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Earned value management used to monitor the project costs of ballast system fabrication and installation on a cargo ship

open access: yesAnnals of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galaţi: Fascicle XI Shipbuilding
The development of projects in the naval field is of crucial importance for the industry. Their success depends on how their costs and duration are managed. The study aims to present how naval projects can be monitored using Earned Value Management (EVM),
Dragoș Damianov, Carmen Gasparotti
doaj   +1 more source

Swedish Consumers' Willingness‐to‐Pay for Plant‐Based Proteins in Pasta Sauce: Preferences and Policy Scenarios

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction of Construction Project Duration and Cost using Earned Value Management

open access: yesInternational Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 2019
Forecasting construction project duration for future with accurate efficiency by considering all the delay factors is a big deal. Various examinations have been done to evaluate the reasons for duration delays in a construction site.

semanticscholar   +1 more source

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