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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship Banking and the Pricing of Financial Services [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate how banking relationships that combine lending and underwriting services affect the terms of lending, through both loan supply- and loan demand-side effects, and the underwriting costs of debt and equity issues.
Charles Calomiris   +1 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

Effect of World Bank Loan Withdrawal on the Performance of Agricultural Extension in Nigeria

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2004
This paper examined the effect of World Bank loan withdrawal on the performance of extension services in Nigeria. This was because agricultural extension activities were tripartitely funded by World Bank, State and Federal governments in Nigeria.
Oladimeji Idowu Oladele
doaj   +1 more source

Staffing of Interlibrary Loan Service

open access: yesCollege & Research Libraries, 1965
Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-29T18:32:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) crl_26_04_318_opt.pdf: 548117 bytes, checksum: 6f55ce695abfa07cc833a47b6f0c04e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965-07 ; published or submitted for ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Loan Servicers' Incentives and Optimal CDOs [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
The paper examines a delegated monitoring problem between investors and servicers managing a pool of correlated loans subject to Markovian "contagion." Moral hazard induces a foreclosure bias in the decision of loan servicers unless they are compensated with the right incentive-compatible contract.
openaire   +1 more source

Occupation Profile: Loan Officiers, October 5, 2017 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Evaluate, authorize or recommend approval of commercial, real estate, or credit loans. Advise borrowers on financial status and payment methods.

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Mapping the Innovation DNA of Agribusiness Firms: A Multi‐Method Analysis of Strategic Capabilities and Performance

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is essential for competitiveness in agribusiness facing dynamic environments. This study examines how market orientation, marketing, relational, and social capabilities influence innovation performance. Using data from 751 Spanish firms and a multi‐method approach that integrates Structural Equation Modeling (PLS‐SEM), Necessary ...
Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez‐Azúa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

View from the Street: Partnerships and Collaboration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Richard Simonds and Josh Reynolds are social workers in Houston. Richard is the Director of THRIVE Connection at Family Houston. Josh is the Director of United Way Care for Elders, an initiative of United Way of Greater Houston that is a collaborative of
Reynolds, Josh, Simonds, Richard
core   +1 more source

From continuous to interruptible distillation: Flexible electric heating column architecture with fast start‐up

open access: yesAIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Electrification of distillation offers a promising route to reducing scope‐1 emissions from one of the chemical industry's most energy‐intensive unit operations. However, conventional adiabatic columns are dynamically inflexible: Long, energy‐intensive start‐ups make shutdown and restart impractical under variable electricity prices and ...
Samuel Mercer, Michael Baldea
wiley   +1 more source

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