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Creator:: Han, Xiaoou
Abstract:: In the forest products business and management literature, one common categorization of different types of innovation is product innovation, process innovation and business systems innovation. Forest products companies have long placed high emphasis on process innovations, which are related to yield maximization, manufacturing efficiency and operating costs reduction. This is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Marketing Sophistication in the Forest Products Industry. Abstract approved

Creator:: Czabke, Jochen
Abstract:: Due to growing global competition, especially in the last decade, the United States wood and wood-based industries have suffered significant market share losses. The wood industry in Germany is facing similar challenges. To stay competitive in an increasingly global marketplace, many wood manufacturers are adopting new management/manufacturing approaches. Lean manufacturing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , benefits especially in the areas of customer service, new product development, and customer

Creator:: Villavicencio Valdez, Gabriela Valeria
Abstract:: The fact that 80 percent of Mexican forestlands are under common ownership impacts the competitiveness of the forest products industry and forest sustainability. Community forest enterprises (CFE) are a heterogeneous group of forest industries managed by indigenous and local communities for livelihood and profit. Many CFEs face inner competitiveness problems,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Science presented on September 24, 2009. Title: Opportunities and Limitations for Community Forest

Creator:: Wade, Alyson
Abstract:: Small landowners in the state of Oregon find it difficult to be competitive with larger companies to provide traditional forest products to consumers. Additionally, many landowners hope to be profitable from their land, but are not necessarily interested in or have the capability to harvest large tracts of timber. Specialty...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: niche forest products is just as important, if not more important, than creating a quality product

Creator:: Orozco, Nadine C.
Abstract:: Innovation is a critical component for long term success of an organization. However, being innovative is rarely easy. Successful implementation of any innovation (product, process, or business system) can heavily rely on the functionality of the current innovation system in a given industry. An innovation system is composed of policies,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: kind. A wood I-joist would be an example of a radical product innovation within the forest

Creator:: Tokarczyk, John A.
Abstract:: The wood-based building products industry has experienced significant turbulence over the past several decades as a function of multiple forces including among others globalization, product and process innovation, and shifting customer and consumer interest and demands. Collectively, these changes have challenged the historical tenets which have defined industry strategy and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Opportunities in the Wood- based Building Product Industry Abstract approved: _ Eric N

Creator:: Tibbets, Ashlee
Abstract:: Export-oriented illegal logging has been recognized as a major global problem in environmental, social, and economic terms. It has been argued that export-oriented illegal logging does not benefit the community or government that should be benefited by its own natural resources. The emergence of policy initiatives targeting illegal logging could...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and professional development. The Forest Business Solutions Team pushed me to do my best

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