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The relationship between performance and governance in agricultural cooperatives : a structural equation modeling approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Previous research in cooperative governance have modeled the relationship between performance and governance using econometric methods such as two-stage ...
Measuring entrepreneurial success in emerging wine regions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Studies in entrepreneurship have found that entrepreneurs' perspective of success is much different than that of multi-stakeholder firms'. The studies state that subjective non-economic performance measures are more important ...
Three essays on agricultural policy and food demand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
To understand better the effect of policy and technology on agricultural markets, I study three topics about agricultural policy and food demand in this dissertation. My first essay identifies the worldwide historical ...
Program attributes that impact a farmer's willingness-to-accept participation in a high oleic soybean (hos) segregation program : a choice experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
HOS need to be segregated from commodity grain at the farm and through the rest of the food chain so that high oleic soybeans and oils do not get commingled with their bulk counterpart. Production on farm is typically ...
Cross-cutting knowledge organizations as leverages of entrepreneurial activity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Motivated by the possibility of obtaining relational rents (Dyer & Singh, 1998; Lavie, 2006), firms have used inter-firm networks as knowledge leverages. ...
Specialization and the firm
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This dissertation investigates the causes of integration in the market, especially as pertains to specialized exchange economies with intensive resource heterogeneity. While the transaction cost theories of the firm are ...
A partial equilibrium analysis of global fertilizer supply and demand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Three essays on Black Sea grain markets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Russia and Ukraine (often referred to as the Black Sea region) have recently emerged as major world grain exporters. Just in the 2011/12 marketing year, according to the USDA (2013) they were among the top ten global ...
Health care sector clustering in U.S. regions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Firms tend to cluster in a relatively small geographical location. As a result, the distribution of the most of the economic activities is not even ...
Estimating U.S. consumer beef demand differentiated by USDA quality grades
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
A historically low U.S. cattle inventory combined with record cattle prices create potential for herd expansion. Many in the livestock industry are discussing the need to restructure beef production and debating over what ...
Technical analysis of evolving farm organization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In the 20th century, some farm organizations have evolved to include more separation of ownership and control, formality, and complexity. We examine propositions of existing theory on the effects to farm success and farm ...
A Study of Innovation and Patenting in the Life Sciences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Expanding our understanding of effective entrepreneurship and leadership processes : an application to the wine sector
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The recent economic recession in the U.S. and in the E.U. is enhancing entrepreneurship processes around the world. Old forms of production are becoming obsolete along with old ways of organizing the economy and society. ...
Three essays on economic growth and the environment: A comparative analysis of developed and developing countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Three essays on entrepreneurship theory and practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation investigates entrepreneurship theory through the perspective of empirical study, case study, and the history of economic thought. The ...
A study of the Mexican sugar industry and the impact of the new suspension agreement under different market structures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the possibility of sugar industry collusion in Mexico, given government policy, and to assess the economic impact of the new trade restrictions on Mexican sugar exports under different ...
Three essays on economics of water resources management in Nepal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
First essay consists of two steps. First, Technical Efficiency (TE) index is estimated for upriver and downriver ecoregions employing DEA technique. In the second stage, we censored the TE index and run the Tobit regression ...
U.S. beef trade in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement : analysis of relevant markets and potential scenarios
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement is a comprehensive regional free trade agreement negotiated by twelve countries around the Pacific Rim covering issues from agriculture to services to intellectual property. ...
Organizational diversity in U.S. emerging wine regions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This dissertation analyzes the institutional structure of production in U.S. emerging wine regions. More specifically, it scrutinizes the grape procurement strategies of firms from five states - Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, ...
Climate variation and corn price volatility : a partial equilibrium model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Projected future climate changes in the US Corn Belt provides motivation to study how these changes will affect the volatility of crop prices. Recent publications focused on how these changes in climate and climate variability ...