Managers of agricultural firms that process specialty crops into consumer products operate in a unique environment that affords little control over uncertainties, making the discovery of optimal sourcing decisions especially complex. These complexities make the explicit incorporation of...

Immersed in an industry consolidation process, agribusiness managers are witnessing in the nineties the proliferation of inter-organizational collaborative agreements which aim to develop, manufacture and commercialize technological innovation. Investment in technological projects becomes a...

Surveying the Issues: Technologies, Biology and Economics -- Biosafety in Agricultural Biotechnology: Balancing Social and Environmental Impacts -- Pest Resistance in Agriculture: An Economic Perspective -- Biotechnology for Planted Forests: An Assessment of Biological, Economic and...

Reduced reliance on cash market prices for fed cattle and hogs raise questions about the role of cash prices in price discovery. We use seven years of weekly data from mandatory price reports to determine whether or not cash market prices are cointegrated with other procurement prices and then...

Über 50 Prozent der befragten Biotechnologie-Unternehmen sind Neugründungen. Ein Drittel derUnternehmen ist als Spin-Off aus einer Universität oder einem wissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstituthervorgegangen, jedes sechste als Spin-Off aus einem Unternehmen oder Tochterunternehmen.• Der...