cotton as a strategic product plays an important role inthe economy of boshrouyehwhere is known as the major cotton producing center of khorasan-e-jonoubi. in this paper, efficiency of boshroyeh cotton farms in 2007 have been calculated using data envelopment analysis (dea) and determinants of efficiency were identified using tobit regression analysis. the data was collected from questionnaires...

This study investigates the logistics and economics of local food production for modeling active living. The data collected from selective groups respondents in Khunyuam dale regarding Thailand's cost living, demographics, products, transport geography, outbound served as empirical evidence. A unique tiger bean was reviewed a asset products. results showed that capabilities were enha...

the quantitative relationship between higher education and economic growth in the tradition of “growth accounting equations” and also “neoclassical production function” approach have occupied a pride of place in economics of education, particularly the literature on more developed countries. however, production function type models that allow for isolating the “indirect” (external) effects of h...

This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation and production strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integrated archetypes approach to analyse a dataset of unique, manually collected, firm responses. The results highlight differences in behaviour patterns underpinning both kinds of strategic decisions and, coherent with alignment theory,...

In production economies, the extent to which non-equilibria are blocked depends on the allocation of control rights among shareholders, because a blocking coalition’s resources are affected by the firms it jointly owns with outsiders. We formulate two notions of blocking. Corporate control is allocated deterministically (majority shares, unanimity, etc.) in one notion and stochastically (partne...

a Technical University of Crete, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Agiou Titou square, Chania 73132 Greece b University of Leeds, Leeds University Business School, Maurice Keyworth Building, Leeds LS2 9JT UK c Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Marketing and Communication, 76 Patission Avenue, Athens 10434 Greece d Technical University of Crete, Depart...

More than thirty years ago, Charnes, Cooper and Schinnar (1976) established an enlightening contact between economic production functions (epfs) — a cornerstone of neoclassical economics — and information theory, showing how a generalization of the Cobb-Douglas production function encodes homogeneous functions. As expected by Charnes et al., the contact turns out to be much broader: we show how...

These proceedings summarize the results of research on dwarf sheep and goat production in humid West Africa. Among the topics discussed are disease profiles of village sheep and goats; feed intake, growth and reproduction rates of West African Dwarf goats; integration of the small ruminant enterprise into the wider farming system of the zone; and the economics of the improved production systems...

background and objectives: in the era of global industrialization, enzymes are being used extensively in the various sectors including food processing. owing to the high price of enzymes, various initiatives have been undertaken by the r&d; sector for the development of new processes or improvement in the existing processes for production of cost effective enzymes. with the advancement in the f...