the number of lambs sold per ewe mated in the breeding flock has a considerable impact on sheep operation profitability. this depends primarily on fertility, prolificacy (# of lambs), and lamb survival, mothering ability, milk production of the ewe and lamb growth rate. optimal reproduction does vary by environment and management system – some sheep operations don’t want a lambing rate over 200...

We make the case that ERP-related profitability improvements first manifest themselves in gross margin. Using regression discontinuity analysis, we compared “SAP Successes” with their matched competitors before and after their SAP implementation periods and found that the gross margin of SAP successes improved significantly but not their operating margin. These results proved robust across two ...

Enhancing cereal crop production to feed the largely growing population is an important approach towards maintaining food security. Fertilizer management major component of requiring special attention for sustainable application. Integrated nutrient (INM) evolving idea, which appears contribute management. A field study was designed see impact INM on a maize–wheat cropping system during winter ...

BACKGROUND Free ranging foraging animals can vary their searching intensity in response to the profitability of the environment by modifying their movements. Marine diving animals forage in a three dimensional space and searching intensity can be varied in both the horizontal and vertical planes. Therefore understanding the relationship between the allocation of searching effort in these two sp...

Customer value creation is allegedly at the centre of relationships between service recipients and service providers (such as financial service organisations in general, and commercial banks in particular). This research considers the role of customer value creation in the strategic response of banks to external changes in their growth opportunities. The analysis established that there had been...

in recent years, virtual communities have been significantly popular and almost all of them are targeted for business profitability. in our study, the profitability of these communities for businesses has been analyzed from a commercial perspective. the study considers virtual community as a business model which can have a great impact on consumer purchase decision process. with respect to refe...

This paper discusses the effect of commercial alternative and conventional farming systems on soil quality and farm profitability in several countries. Soil quality and farm profitability are two of several indices that measure agricultural sustainability. These studies indicated that the organic and biodynamic farming systems have soils of higher biological, physical, and in many cases chemica...

With the use of information technology (IT), organizations radically redesign their business processes and improve their business profitability and productivity. Previous information systems (IS) research has investigated whether or not IT improves business profitability and productivity. However, most of the previous studies failed to consider any contextual or moderating factors that might af...

This article examines the effect of GDP growth on bank profitability in China over the period 2003-2009. The one-step system GMM estimator is used to test the persistence of profitability in Chinese banking industry. The empirical findings suggest that cost efficiency is positively related to bank profitability, while lower profitability can also be explained by higher taxes paid by banks. In a...