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GMO: Questions and Answers
(university of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2000)
This is a list of common questions and answers concerning Genetically Modified Organisms and their place in Missouri Agribusiness.
Organizational Structure and the Diversification Discount: Evidence from Commercial Banking
(Blackwell, 2008)
This paper provides evidence on organizational structure, geographic diversification, and performance at bank holding companies (BHCs). First, we show that a BHC's member banks benefit from access to the parent organization's ...
Opportunity discovery, entrepreneurial action, and economic organization
(Wiley, 2008)
This paper reviews and critiques the "opportunity discovery" approach to entrepreneurship and argues that entrepreneurship can be more thoroughly grounded, and more closely linked to more general problems of economic ...
The theory of the firm and its critics: a stocktaking and assessment
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Since its emergence in the 1970s the modern economic or Coasian theory of the firm has been discussed and challenged by sociologists, heterodox economists, management scholars, and other critics. This chapter reviews and ...
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
(2006-02)
Is entrepreneurship an innate ability or an acquired skill? Can entrepreneurial acumen be achieved and enhanced through education and training, or are certain people �born� to be entrepreneurs or to act entrepreneurially? ...
Testing for the Presence of Financial Constraints in US Agricultural Cooperatives: An Investment Behaviour Approach
(Blackwell, 2005)
This study examines the presence of financial constraints in US agricultural cooperatives. We test the cooperative capital constraint hypothesis with a panel data econometric analysis of agricultural cooperatives' investment ...
T.W. Schultz and the Human-Capital Approach to Entrepreneurship
(Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, 2006)
T.W. Schultz's theory of entrepreneurship is among his least known, but most interesting, contributions. While entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as important for economic organization and development, it is not ...
New Institutional Economics
(Edward Elgar, 2000)
This chapter surveys the new institutional economics, a rapidly growing literature combining economics, law, organization theory, political science, sociology and anthropology to understand social, political and commercial ...
Economics of Specialty Corn Products in Missouri
(University of Missouri Outreach & Extension, 2000-03)
The grain/oilseed industry is undergoing change. These changes are driven by more discriminating consumers and by competitive processors. Advances in plant genetics and processing technologies work together to produce and ...
Agricultural Contracting
(University of Missouri Outreach & Extension Professional Implementation Experience, 2000-04)
The information in this presentation was assimilated during a University of Missouri Outreach & Extension Professional Implementation Experience (Train the Trainer) program held on April 4 and 5, 2000. The information ...
Migration to rural communities in the Midwest : economic wellbeing and women at the household level
(Cambio Center, 2007)
Migration patterns are changing from large metropolis to rural towns. Rather than temporary migration of male heads of households the patterns are now for families to migrate in various stages. Rural Missouri towns have ...
Using Commodity Futures as a Price Forecasting Tool
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
Commodity futures prices can serve as a mechanism for price discovery for either present or expected future prices. A market is defined as efficient if it accounts for all public and nonpublic information in determining ...
An Introduction to Basis
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
This guide is one in a series designed to help you better understand available marketing strategies. The focus of this guide is to help agricultural producers and agribusinesses better understand commodity basis. As will ...
Commodity Futures Terminology
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
This guide is intended to provide a basic understanding of commodity futures terminology. Though the terminology of trading agricultural commodities goes far beyond the scope of this guide, this information can be used to ...
Interpreting Commodity Futures and Options Price Quotes
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
This guide is designed to help producers to understand how to interpret commodity price quotes for futures and options. Those not familiar with futures and options price quotes may find the initial process of interpretation ...
A New Institutional Economics Perspective on the Relationship Among Societal Values, Governance Structure and Access to Rural Health Care Services
(2007-08)
According to New Institutional Economics, transactional activities, governance structures, institutions and beliefs and values are related hierarchically. Williamson (2000) formalizes this framework to show that each ...
Does the World Need U.S. Farmers Even if Americans Don't?
(2006-09)
We consider the implications of trends in the number of U.S. farmers and food imports on the question of what role U.S. farmers have in an increasingly global agrifood system. Our discussion stems from the argument some ...
The Ethics of Constrained Choice: How the Industrialization of Agriculture Impacts Farming and Farmer Behavior
(2004-06)
The industrialization of agriculture not only alters the ways in which agricultural production occurs, but also impacts the decisions farmers make in important ways. First, constraints created by the economic environment ...
For a Sustainable Agriculture, We Need More Adam Smith, Not Less
(2005-06)
There are two competing approaches to sustainability in agriculture. One stresses a strict economic approach in which market forces should be allowed to guide the activities of agricultural producers. The other advocates ...
Are Happy People Ethical People? Evidence from North America and Europe
(2004-07)
We examine empirically the relationship between happiness and the ethical decisions of individuals. We use data from the 1995-97 wave of the World Values Survey (WVS) to test the hypothesis that the relationship between ...