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What Drives the Volatility of Firm Level Productivity in China?

open access: yesJournal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2015
The enterprise reforms of the 1990s profoundly changed the structure of the economy in China. Using a fi rm-level dataset collected annually during the period of 1998–2007, this paper examines the variation of productivity volatility across fi rms of ...
Xubei Luo, Nong Zhu
doaj   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dealing with Enterprise-IT and Product-IT in a manufacturing enterprise - towards integration in Enterprise Architecture Management.

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents an idea for doctoral thesis in the area of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). The aim of the thesis is to come up with an integrated way to deal with enterprise-IT and product-IT within EAM practice and investigate the role of participative Enterprise Modeling (EM) in this context. 
openaire   +3 more sources

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational barriers to labor productivity growth in the context of digital transformation: A model of impact and management tools [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия «Экономика. Управление. Право»
Introduction. The growing scale of enterprise digital transformation, the implementation of smart technologies and digital platforms, and changes in the structure of business processes indicate the formation of a new model of labor productivity growth ...
Tarasenko, Aleksandr V.   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Intramolecular Nickel‐Catalyzed Reductive Coupling: Enantioselective Synthesis of Tetrahydroisoquinolines and Related Heterocycles

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
The successful extension of the nickel‐catalyzed asymmetric coupling of polarized 1,3‐dienes with aldehydes to an intramolecular setting opens an efficient new entry into hydroxylated N‐heterocyclic compounds, most notably valuable tetrahydroisoquinolines.
Thilo Bender   +3 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
wiley   +1 more source

DETERMINATION OF RESERVES FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION [PDF]

open access: yesEconomy and Sociology, 2016
The paper evidences the essence of land potential in agriculture as well as the methodology of determining the potential levels of land fertility during the production of different crop types based on an example of an existing agricultural enterprise ...
Tatiana DUDOGLO
doaj  

The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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