Productivity and value added distribution in family-owned businesses

Sensemaking, Entrepreneurship and Agricultural Value- Added Businesses

Agricultural producers have been experiencing significant income pressures, leading to a search for alternative sources of income. One of such is value-added agricultural businesses that allow the farmers to stay on the farm and undertake entrepreneurial ventures to improve their finances. How do farmers make sense of their environment as they consider their options for value-added business ven...

Using Economic Value Added (EVA) to Examine Farm Businesses Authors

The four profitability measures recommended by the Farm Financial Standards Task Force have limitations for examining wealth creation. Non-farm corporations, by contrast, have started to use Economic Value Added (EVA) to measure wealth creation. EVA has some advantages over other financial ratios because it fully accounts for the resources used on the farm and it includes both realized and unre...

Service Businesses and Productivity

The records of superior performance of selected service firms over many years suggest that they may be more productive than others. This article uses the Theory of Swift, Even Flow to explain why that might be true. In the process, this article improves Schmenner’s 1986 service process matrix. The redefinition of the axes of this matrix and of the resulting diagonal leads to enhanced understand...

Identifying barriers to improving productivity and eliminating them and presenting a model for calculating total productivity in state-owned natural gas distribution companies in Iran

Improving productivity in public sector organizations requires a comprehensive view to remove its obstacles and measure the effectiveness of related measures. This practical article has identified the most important barriers to improving productivity in Iran's natural gas distribution companies through interviews and screening and weighted them using the AHP method. In the following, the model ...

Employee Owned Businesses – Access to Funding