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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing change in the sales force

, 2011
Il capitolo riassume i modelli teorici di change management, ne approfondisce le specificità nel contesto del sales management, illustra un caso empirico di gestione del cambiamento in ambito commerciale in una ...
GUENZI, PAOLO
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sales Management: SAM3A13

, 2014
Examination on Sales Management: SAM3A13, June ...
Woodhall, C
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Managing your executive MBA program to its maximum sales potential: an exploratory and holistic approach [PDF]

The purpose of this research is to determine methods in which Business Schools can manage its Executive MBA Program in order to achieve maximum desired sales (i.e. enrollment).
Francis PETIT
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Sustainable Prescribing-A Case Study Presenting Experiences From Two Swedish Drug and Therapeutics Committees. [PDF]

Pharmacol Res Perspect
Ericsson B, Lindahl U, Villén J, Nekoro M, Ramström H, Wettermark B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff, Charles A. W. de Grazia, Nicholas E. Rada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EMP: Enhanced Multi-modal Prediction for fashion sales using Fourier Mapping and ERP-based contrastive learning. [PDF]

PLoS One
Park S, Park B, Lee S, Shin S, Kim W.
europepmc   +1 more source