On Thursday the 29th of November 1951 at the offices of J. Lyons & Co LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) became the first ever software used to conduct business. The purpose of this software application was to calculate the amount and cost of raw materials required to meet the nationwide orders for bread placed with the company [5, 8]. Until then, the massive computing machines of the time had only ...

The enterprise intelligence through e-transformation is one of the cornerstones of the next-generation ebusiness era where the Internet constitutes the core business resource. Furthermore, the severe competitive landscape of e-business makes firms focus on their core capability and farm out staffing functions such as IT. Under this circumstance, enhancing intelligence and synergy through e-tran...

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...

This work examines the presence of unobserved components in the time series of Total Factor Productivity, which is an idea central to modern Macroeconomics. The main approaches in both the study of economic growth and the study of business cycles rely on certain properties of the different components of the time series of Total Factor Productivity. In the study of economic growth, the Neoclassi...

Nursery culture of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is an important segment to support a comprehensive business. Requirements for business sustainability involve the high profitability company and growth reared fish. This experiment aimed observe aspect, fish growth, water quality, techniques applied in farm. The was done using case study method, where Turbo farm, located Bogor West Java, used a...

Dr. Stefan Thurner’s report analyses the development, buildup and unfolding of financial market crashes using a dynamic agent based model. The model simulates relevant conditions under which agents behave in financial markets and allows one to see how excessive leverage (the use of credit for speculative investments) is a prime source of vulnerability and can act as the catalyst for a crash. Th...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become an important and essential decision support tool in agricultural products marketability. The high production cost of farms and the increasing demand for food have pushed ICT to the forefront of the food supply chain. In developing world such as Sub-Saharan African (SSA) regions where the farm profitability is generally low, efforts have ...

A growing number of studies have shown that adequate spatial access to healthy foods leads to increased fresh produce consumption and reduced risk of chronic diseases. Annual dynamics of spatial access to 1,539 vendors of fresh produce (including farmers markets and roadside farm stands) are analyzed in Massachusetts. Travel distance to the nearest fresh produce vendor was calculated for each c...

This chapter analyzes the technical efficiency of banana production among Ugandan smallholders by estimating a stochastic production frontier model with inefficiency effects. The empirical models are formulated within the overarching framework of the agricultural household specified in Chapter 2. The data design is also summarized in Chapter 2, although additional information about soil quality...