Arbindra Rimal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture – Agribusiness, Southwest Missouri State University. Tommy Perkins is Professor at the Department of Agriculture – Animal Science, Southwest Missouri State University. Joe C. Paschal is Professor at the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texas A&M University System. Correspondence Address: 206 Karls Hall, Southwest Missou...

Due to various evolving demands on companies of the agribusiness, communication of product related information across the chain is gaining importance. One approach to support efforts made to meet these demands is the development of chain-wide information systems. As information is partially collected in the enterprises own software systems, chain-wide information systems can only succeed if the...

Those persons employed in this nation's agribusiness industry can ill afford to ignore the balance sheet for U.S. agriculture. Preliminary estimates for 1983 suggest that production agriculture currently functions on a base of debt capital totaling $215 billion. While total assets employed have, since 1980, remained almost constant at about $1,000 billion, our farmers' equity position has actua...

a School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, Australia b Department of Agribusiness, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, United States c Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University, United States d Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, United States e Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma ...

Institute of Exact Science, Federal University of Alfenas – UNIFAL, CEP 37130-000, Alfenas, MG, Brazil Department of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCar, CEP 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute for Innovation and Business, National Nanotechnology Laboratory for Agribusiness – LNNA, Embrapa Agricultural Instrumentation, São Carlo...

Information technologies such as blockchain are developing fast, overcoming bottlenecks, and quickly taking advantage of their application. The present study analyzes recent changes concerning the benefits, disadvantages, challenges, opportunities applications in agribusiness. Interviews were conducted with a questionnaire was applied to professionals working development application technology ...

1 Agribusiness, Arizona State University East, 7001 E. Williams Field Road, Bldg. 130, Mesa, AZ. 85212. Hamilton is Professor in the Orfalea College of Business, Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, CA. 93407. Contact author: Richards, phone: 480-727-1488 FAX: 480-727-1510 email: [email protected]. Copyright 2006 Timothy J. Richards. All rights reserved. Do not cite or quote without permission...

Der Stellenwert des stufenübergreifenden Informationsaustausch ist im Agribusiness stark gestiegen; gleichzeitig gibt es jedoch Hinweise auf erhebliche Kommunikationsbarrieren. Die Fleischwirtschaft reagierte darauf mit der Implementierung DV-basierter Informationssysteme. Speziell für die kleinstrukturierte Landwirtschaft stellt sich jedoch die Frage, ob ein standardisierter Informationsaustau...

The qualitative research paradigm, although occasionally applied, is not widely discussed in agribusiness and agricultural economics literature. The primary goals of this paper are (a) to present insights into qualitative research approaches and processes by outlining grounded theory as an example of a systematic and rigorous qualitative approach, and (b) to discuss criteria for scientific rigo...

The growing importance of B2B e-commerce has seen the need for the development of a model to assist in the choice of e-business models. This paper explores the internal and external factors influencing the choice of e-business models using depth interviews and case studies conducted with Australian agribusiness organisations. Sixteen factors, were identified with only 11 regarded as important t...