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Time Sharing at Leisure Facility Centres: Analysis of Sales Performance Indicators [PDF]

open access: yes
The changing cultural paradigms in Latin America have influenced variety of leisure activities and significant implications for development of leisure services.
Rajagopal
core  

Hybrid sales structures in the age of e-commerce

open access: yes, 2018
Sales organizations continue to exhibit meaningful changes in their structures during the e-commerce era. This article examines the impact of Internet technology on the evolution of sales organizations and identifies key components underpinning a ...
Thaichon, Park   +10 more
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAmerican 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   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Repeat Sales Index Robust to Small Datasets [PDF]

open access: yes
As suggested by D. Geltner, commercial properties indices have to be built using repeat sales instead of hedonic indices. The repeat sales method is a means of constructing real estate price indices based on a repeated observation of property ...
Michel Baroni   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Economic Effects of State Bans on Direct Manufacturer Sales to Car Buyers [PDF]

open access: yes
State franchise laws prohibit auto manufacturers from making sales directly to consumers. This paper advocates eliminating state bans on direct manufacturer sales in order to provide automakers with an opportunity to reduce inventories and distribution ...
Gerald R. Bodisch
core  

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

open access: yesAmerican 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAmerican 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining Sales Pay Strategy Using Agency, Transaction Cost and Resource Dependence Theories [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this study was to investigate, using data gathered from 325 French-Canadian organizations, the influence of key constructs related to agency, transaction cost and resource dependence theories on the proportion of salary in sales ...
Michel Tremblay   +2 more
core  

The moderator role of selling skills on the relationship between sales orientation-customer orientation and sales force performance of the agencies of Asian Insurance Firm

open access: yesتحقیقات بازار یابی نوین, 2013
This study aims to the importance of buyers-sellers interactions in service sector such as insurance industry, and the more effect of Sales Force on buyer,s decision.
mostafa mehrafrooz   +2 more
doaj  

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