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Enterprise and employability: to conflate or not to conflate?

open access: yes, 2010
Back in 1992, Watts and Hawthorn provided definitions of ‘enterprise’ that could subsume the concept of employability. They argued that enterprise may be about: helping students set up a business; working within an enterprise (organisation); or being ...
Dean, L
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Governance and disclosure of the Firm as an Enterprise Entity [PDF]

open access: yes
Recent financial crises and scandals have focused attention on the system of governance and disclosure in a way many may never have imagined and few welcomed.
Yuri Biondi
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
wiley   +1 more source

THE PROBLEM OF ENTERPRISE VALUE ASSESSMENT

open access: yesActa Economica, 2010
One of the most complex problems in economy is Business Appraisal. Global crisis and inactive and illiquid financial markets influence the Business Appraisal.
Драган Микеревић, PhD
doaj  

Social software begat Web 2.0 begat Enterprise 2.0 begat business value?

open access: yes, 2007
This paper is an investigation and exploration of the web phenomena Web 2.0 and its emergence from the Social Software movement and continuing evolution into its business version, Enterprise 2.0. With these emergent technologies, application, development
Patrick, K.
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social enterprise networks: The everyday unfolding of social enterprise by interpreting & drawing different views

open access: yes
This thesis examines how social enterprise is constructed in theory and practice. A critical approach is taken to questioning assumptions about complex issues especially the dynamics of networks and those facing uncertain and ambiguous situations. Due to
Seanor, Pam
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