Technology adoption in the Australian beef industry has been low and slow compared to that in the intensive livestock and cropping industries. Adoption needs to be higher and faster to fully capture the benefits from new beef genetic and other technologies. The principles of rapid improvement and innovation, and accelerated adoption, provide an innovative solution to this problem. In the Beef C...

Internal knowledge integration and patenting are both reckoned to increase the productivity of human capital and the profitability of the firms implementing them. The combined e↵ect of a joint use is in many ways ambiguous since those practices pursue di↵erent objectives in terms of managing the flow of knowledge and information within the firm’s boundaries. The presence of informational spillo...

pistachio is a major agricultural export commodity in iran. nowadays, it ranks first among iran’s agricultural exports. this paper focuses on the comparative advantage in pistachio production and the export market in iran. a policy analysis matrix (pam) framework and revealed comparative advantage (rca) index are applied to 2000-2004 data to study iranian government policy regarding pistachio p...

According to Dean1, the largest component of an underground mine’s operating expenses is the labour cost, typically from 40% to 50% with some as high as 60% of the total cost. Industrial managers know that the total cost will go down if they can accomplish the job with fewer people. Moreover, enhancing the productivity per man-hour is one of the greatest savings in manpower and that can be a po...

While the discussion of Thailand and East Asian growth has been a controversy between capital accumulation and productivity stories, we analyze the general equilibrium interaction between productivity and investment in an intertemporal model. The model builds in endogenous productivity spillover effects influencing profitability and investment and produces long run growth effects of economic po...

We highlight the difference between the service sector and the manufacturing sector in regard to the determinants for a firm to start FDI and the productivity growth it achieves. This paper analyzes two questions: (1) whether a certain level of productivity explains a Japanese firm’s choice to be a multinational firm (by starting FDI), and (2) how the productivity of such a multinational firm c...

Despite the ubiquitous proliferation and importance of Enterprise Systems (ES), little research exists on their post-implementation impact on firm performance, especially in Europe. This paper provides representative, large-sample evidence on the differential effects of different ES types on performance of European enterprises. It also highlights the mediating role of innovation in the process ...

We test whether demographic characteristics and team processes in top management teams predict the subsequent productivity and profitability of their companies in 42 UK manufacturing organisations. The results suggest that there are independent effects of both demographic characteristics and team processes. Team member mean educational level and team tenure both predict the subsequent productiv...

due to contiguous city of ravar with lut and dasht-e kavir desert, and weather conditions, water is one of the rarest agricultural inputs in this city. pistachio allocates 90% of garden and 73% of agricultural lands of the city and it is the most important agricultural product in this region. a major source of agricultural water supply in this area is groundwater. low price of water on one side...