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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

Hardware acceleration of number theoretic transform for zk‐SNARK

open access: yesEngineering Reports, EarlyView., 2023
An FPGA‐based hardware accelerator with a multi‐level pipeline is designed to support the large‐bitwidth and large‐scale NTT tasks in zk‐SNARK. It can be flexibly scaled to different scales of FPGAs and has been equipped in the heterogeneous acceleration system with the help of HLS and OpenCL.
Haixu Zhao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Offshore Outsourcing Risk Management for Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yesEAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things, 2017
Software offshore outsourcing is strong pillar of software development. Software offshore outsourcing involves many risks, due to internal or external factors, that must be recognized and managed.
Maria Latif   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research on Outsourcing by Hotel Firms: Current State and Future Directions

open access: yesTourism and Hospitality, 2023
This article aims to analyse the current state of hotel outsourcing research and where it should go in the future. Research on outsourcing is increasingly present in the hospitality literature.
Tomás F. Espino-Rodríguez
doaj   +1 more source

REVIEWING OUTSOURCING CONTROVERSY IN INDONESIA (An Exploratory Study of Human Resources Outsourcing Practice in Semarang City) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Outsourcing in Indonesia is still a controversy. The different concept of outsourcing between employers (vendors and users), employees/outsourced workers, and government makes another problem in outsourcing implementation, especially in industrial ...
FAISAL, Akbar, SUHARNOMO, Suharnomo
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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

Inclusive Internal Financing, Selective Internal Financing, or Hybrid Financing? A Competitive Low-Carbon Supply Chain Operational and Financing Strategies

open access: yesSystems
Amidst escalating concerns about climate change, manufacturers are increasingly pressured to adopt a low-carbon supply chain (LCSC). Financial constraints deter numerous companies from embracing low-carbon initiatives in a competitive landscape ...
Xiaoli Zhang, Lin Zhang, Caiquan Duan
doaj   +1 more source

Matching Task Complexity With Supplier Management to Enhance Outsourcing Performance

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
As organizations search for low-cost and complementary resources and capabilities from external partners, the development of strategic outsourcing becomes an increasingly complex task.
Gukseong Lee
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of agricultural production outsourcing service and land fragmentation on agricultural non-point source pollution in China: Evidence from Jiangxi Province

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Agricultural production outsourcing service (APOS) are developing rapidly in China. In-depth research on whether the development of agricultural production outsourcing service can reduce agricultural non-point source pollution (ANSP) and the influencing ...
Su Chen, Zeyun Zhong, Hua Lu
doaj   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

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