Results 121 to 130 of about 2,247,012 (295)

Does a Specialized Niche Market Vegetable Processor Enjoy Bargaining Power?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agribusiness companies may achieve competitive advantage through specialization within niche markets. One such niche is the fresh‐cut fruit and vegetable market, which has been steadily growing in Germany. This study examines whether the specialization of a German fresh‐cut producer grants it with market power within this niche market.
Nikolas Bublik   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eleições e desempenho macroeconômico na América Latina (1979-1998)

open access: yesDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2001
This article presents an analysis of the different theoretical models for the relationship between elections and economics, as well as econometric tests applied to GDP and employment trends in Latin American democracies from 1979 to 1998.
Borsani Hugo
doaj  

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Acceptance of New Sustainable Food Technologies: Upcycling Technology, Biostimulants, and Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food systems have a significant impact on environmental sustainability, underscoring the need for innovative technologies to support more sustainable agricultural methods. However, the adoption of these technologies hinges on consumer acceptance, making the analysis of consumer perceptions essential.
Greta Castellini, Guendalina Graffigna
wiley   +1 more source

Escaping Political Extraction: Political Participation, Institutions, and Cash Holdings in China [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the effects of political participation on holdings of liquid assets in a transition economy. Previous research has shown that the risk of political extraction by politicians and bureaucrats in countries with weak institutions has an adverse ...
Feng, Xunan, Johansson, Anders C.
core  

KDLM: Lightweight Brain Tumor Segmentation via Knowledge Distillation

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A lightweight student network is designed, which is based on multiscale and multilevel feature fusion and combined with the residual channel attention mechanism to achieve efficient feature extraction and fusion with very few parameters. A dual‐teacher collaborative knowledge distillation framework is proposed.
Baotian Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

[COVID-19 Pandemic and Political Institutions]. [PDF]

open access: yesPolit Vierteljahresschr, 2021
Kersting N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Political Institutions, Voter Turnout and Policy Outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes
We question whether the impact of constitutions on economic outcomes (Persson and Tabellini, 2004) is direct. We show that voter turnout is a channel through which forms of government affect economic policies.
Eileen Fumagalli and Gaia Narciso
core  

The archetypal mission of political institutions in the postmodern (multipolar) world

open access: yesУкраїнський соціум
National and international political institutions in the context of the second wave of transformational processes at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries (after the Great Depression of the first half of the 20th century) are ...
Afonin E. A., Martynov A. Yu.
doaj   +1 more source

Political Institutions and Privatisation Policy [PDF]

open access: yes
Privatisierung, Wirtschaftspolitik, Privatization, Privatization, Economic ...
Bernardo Bortolotti
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy