This study of a sample of firms based in a region of Scotland, examines the characteristics of organizations that are early adopters of management development methods. The survey results show that organizations that are early adopters of one or more of four fashionable management development...

The context of agricultural production, climate change in particular, increasingly requires adaptations to the structure and management of farming systems. As a result, farmers need to develop their adaptive capacity. To support this process, agricultural research has developed two main...

Despite their wide range of applications, process-based plant (crop and grassland) growth models often fail to reproduce yields, particularly at farm, regional and larger scales. This is largely due to inadequate information about field management activities needed as input to these models. A...