Earlier research by the author indicated that although agribusiness was emerging as a key conduit for transfer of research and development outputs and outcomes to end users such as growers, little strategic engagement appears to exist between agribusiness and Research and Development providers (RDCs). The objective of this project was to focus on development of a central point of access to R&D ...

Despite the growth and interest in the agribusiness profession, what constitutes agribusiness management research continues to be a perennial debate. This study argues that the advancement of a field is predicated on defining a field’s set of fundamental questions or issues because resolution of such issues serves to elevate the field to a high level of research inquiry. In order to advance the...

Agribusiness managers as the major players in the agricultural industry greatly determine agribusiness practices and affectperception about agricultural sustainability. This study develops a framework to analyze how agribusiness students, the future agribusiness managers, in California view sustainable agriculture. An educational program was created and implemented to raise awareness and educat...

Employees are a strategic resource for agribusiness firms to achieve sustained competitive advantage (SCA). The resource-based theory (RBT) has emerged as a useful framework to analyze the significance of the human resource system in achieving SCA. However, few empirical studies in agribusiness provide evidence of a relationship between human resource system and SCA. This paper builds off our 2...

Die Anwendung von Web 2.0 Tools innerhalb von Unternehmen ermöglicht diesen neue Formen der Kollaboration sowie Austausch von Informationen und Wissen. Flache Hierarchien und Formen der Selbstorganisation verhelfen zu einer neuen Unternehmenskultur, die für Werte wie Transparenz steht und den Umgang mit offener Kritik fördert. Diese neue Entwicklung der Unternehmen wird als Enterprise 2.0 bezei...

Im Beitrag werden wichtige Web 2.0 Technologien kurz vorgestellt. Welche praktische Anwendung hat die Technologie im Bereich des Agribusiness, einschliesslich der Landwirtschaft? Bieten diese Anwendungen ihren Anwendern einen deutlichen ökonomischen Vorteil? Der Beitrag schließt mit einer subjektiven Prognose des Anwendungserfolgs einzelner Web 2.0 Technologien in der Landwirtschaft und im Agri...

Australia’s publicly owned and managed National Parks estate has been largely quarantined from the micro-economic reforms that have been instituted across most other sectors of the economy. The public good, natural monopoly and equity arguments that are used to justify a continued dominance by the public sector in the production and provision of Park benefits are not watertight. Opening up the ...

To improve the incomes of farmers in China, the Chinese government is paying increased attention to the reform of its agricultural subsidy policy. However, the effectiveness of the subsidy remains insufficient and thus fails to encourage farmers to cultivate their land and develop sustainability. Thus, there is a need for a novel model that will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of subsi...

Motives, values and attitudes are key components of the decision-making process. Behavioural studies in agribusiness focus on using these three components to understand the decision-making processes of farmers (Morris & Potter 1995). Literature on three behavioural theories is reviewed with the aim of concluding if the theories can be combined for agribusiness research. Fishbein and Ajzen’s The...

In spite of much research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) responses to secondary stakeholders (i.e., social movements, activists, media, civil society and non-governmental organizations), the debate on how companies learn from pressure and collaboration with these societal groups is still open. Building upon stakeholder and knowledge management theories, this paper analyzes how seconda...