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Employee stock ownership plans : business succession planning in New Hampshire [PDF]
, 1996 This project describes using an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) as a method for succession planning for small and medium sized businesses. (Library-derived description)Morrison, R. (1996). Employee stock ownership plans: business succession planning
Morrison, Roy
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Local Initiatives in favour of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises [PDF]
Regional environment creates a set of factors that can be called either stimulants or barriers to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Local governments should remove barriers, transforming them into promoters.
Wach, Krzysztof
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Human Resource Management With Small Firms; Facts And Explanations [PDF]
This study examines determinants of the formalization of HRM practices with small firms. We derive five hypotheses that identify possible determinants of the level of formalization, including firm size, family business, the availability of an HRM ...
Kok, J.M.P. de +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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Development and support of small business in Kazakhstan
Хабаршысы. Экономика сериясы, 2015 In conditions of transformation economy of Kazakhstan small business plays a very important role both in the local economy and throughout the country, because actually the territorial specialization allowed him to complete small business “big” economy ...
A. S. Bikhanova
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High Tech Businesses in the UK: performance and niche markets [PDF]
This paper presents the findings of a survey of 237 high tech small and medium sized businesses based in the UK. The survey is part of an ongoing comparative study of high tech small businesses in the UK and Japan.
Hugh Whittaker, Thelma Quince
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Research to assess the barriers and drivers to energy efficiency in small and medium sized enterprises [PDF]
, 2014 This report is based on a small scale, Department of Energy and Climate Change commissioned, research project to better understand the barriers and drivers to energy efficiency faced by individual firms, particularly small and medium sized enterprises ...
Brown, P, Sherriff, GA
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