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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 The potential of pastoral land use to create positive environmental, economic, and social outcomes is constrained by a “way of seeing” land and people through the eyes of Modernity and mechanical determinism.
Christopher J. K. Perley
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International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2023 The success requirement of managers’ progress, development and performance improvement lie in their attention to product variety and company effectiveness.
Elham Zaker Harofteh +1 more
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Trees, Forests and People, 2023 Maple syrup production represents a prominent form of ton-timber forest production across the northeastern United States and Canada. Similar to farmers, maple syrup producers face complex size and scope decisions about the size or product diversification
Sara Velardi +4 more
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2021 The literature on inter‑municipal cooperation (IMC) focusing on the characteristics of its members and factors driving a decision to start cooperating is abundant.
Aneta Chodakowska
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, 2020 Economies of scope exist when the cost of joint production of two outputs is less than the cost of producing the components separately. These may arise from the leveraging of a core competence based on knowledge and learning, from the efficient use of resources or from spreading the cost of a network across a wider range of products. Scope is concerned
McGee, John +2 more
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Belgeo, 2004 After container shipping, the cruise shipping industry has entered recently into the overpanamax era, in a typical quest for economies of scale, at the same time as it was searching for economies of scope, including through corporate mergers.
Jacques Charlier
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Journal of Applied Economics, 2019 This article examines the empirical performance of alternative frontier estimators’ ability to replicate a known underlying technology and economic measures such as multi-product and product-specific economies of scale, and economies of scope.
Bryon J. Parman, Allen M. Featherstone
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Does mixing livestock farming enterprises improve farm and product sustainability?
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2022 Mixed farming systems are gaining interest both as a risk management strategy and to apply agroecological principles. This study set out to assess the sustainability of mixed systems compared to their specialized counterparts.
Claire Mosnier +3 more
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Economias de escala e de escopo: desmistificando alguns aspectos da transição
Production, 1997 Nas duas últimas décadas, o mundo industrial assistiu a uma crescente fragmentação e segmentação dos seus mercados, especialmente para o setor de bens de consumo duráveis.
Cláudio Szwarcfiter +1 more
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Efficiency, and economies of scale and scope in Japanese agricultural cooperatives
Journal of Economic Structures, 2022 The purpose of this study is to investigate regional differences in the business characteristics of Japanese agricultural cooperatives (JAs), which have been widely criticized for depending on non-agricultural activities, contradictory to cooperative ...
Kozo Harimaya, Koichi Kagitani
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