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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Organizational Culture on Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Productivity

open access: yesJournal of Nursology
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effects of nurses' sociodemographic characteristics, professional characteristics, and organizational culture on nurses’ attitudes toward productivity.Methods: This descriptive and relational study was ...
Melike Fındık Çelik, Nilgün Göktepe
doaj   +1 more source

Organizational Capital, Skills and Productivity

open access: yesReview of Income and Wealth
This paper studies how industries' investment in organizational capital (OC) and workforce skills relate to productivity, building on OECD estimates of OC, output data from the OECD Structural Analysis (STAN) database, and skill indicators from the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).
Emile Cammeraat   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Incentive Contracts and Total Factor Productivity [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper proposes a transactions cost theory of total factor productivity. In a world with asymmetric information and transactions costs, effort, and thus productivity, must be induced by incentive schemes.
Bental, Benjamin, Demougin, Dominique M.
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General systems perspective on achieving continuous synergy in a project organisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Studies of construction labour productivity have revealed that limited predictability and multi-agent social complexity make long-range planning of construction projects extremely inaccurate.
Radosavljevic, Milan
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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Return to Computer Use and Organizational Practices of the firm [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that computer use will lead to productivity gains only if the firm uses an appropriate set of organizational practices. Detailed data on organizational practices and workers.
Benoit Dostie, Mathieu Trépanier
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Organizational Productivity with the Role of Mediating Empowerment and Job Stress (Case Study: Shahid Beheshti University Staff

open access: yesمشاوره شغلی و سازمانی, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) on organizational productivity by mediating employees empowerment and job stress (Case study: Shahid Beheshti University staff).
زهرا بخشعلی   +2 more
doaj  

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