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An examination of strategic challenges and opportunities in the wood-based building product industry

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

The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

Creator:: Crandall, Mindy S.
Abstract:: The development of a market for currently non-merchantable forest material, such as harvest residues of tops and limbs of trees or small diameter trees, has been suggested as a possible win-win solution that could: (i) provide a financial incentive to help motivate treatments to reduce wildfire risk or restore forest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Forest Products Market and Biomass Use ........................22 3. Economic Theory and Model

Implications of the 2008 Lacey Act amendments : insights from the wood products industry

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:: problem in environmental, social, and economic terms. It has been argued that export-oriented illegal

Local Specialty and Niche Market Potential: Opportunities for Oregon's Small Woodland Owners

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

Defining and comparing risks and success measures of the reference design process and traditional new product development processes

Creator:: Larson, Tasha M.
Abstract:: To address aggressive global competition, retain customers and increase revenue, firms are required to pursue New Product Development (NPD) projects. Ventures of this nature are risky and fail often. Numerous factors influence the survival of a project. In this research, 16 factors have been identified and selected as indicators of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Product Development Processes Abstract approved

The behavior of economic agents and market performance

Creator:: Gokhale, Jayendra
Abstract:: This dissertation addresses issues concerning the behavior of firms, which has significant effects on performance. In the first study, we empirically investigate the effect of the reduction in number of firms on price competition in the U.S. macro-brewing industry. The number of macro brewing firms decreased from 766 in 1935...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Economics, presented on May 15, 2013. Title: The Behavior of Economic Agents and Market Performance

Corporate social responsibility and its implementation : a study of companies in the global forest sector

Creator:: Han, Xiaoou
Abstract:: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be defined as companies acting in accordance with societal demands. In recent years, CSR has gradually become a leading issue in business. Heightened corporate attention to CSR has not been entirely voluntary. Many companies awoke to it only after being surprised by public response to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: terms of making profit. It is important for forest industry companies to meet the economic

Economic Benefit from Allowing Wildfires to Burn in Federal East-Side Cascade Forests

Creator:: Gagnon, Aaron R.
Abstract:: In this thesis I examine the question: can allowing a wildfire to burn this year result in a net positive economic gain? To answer this question I created 2,500 multiple sets of paired scenarios (called a fire of interest) which consist of ignitions, vegetation growth, and timber harvest over the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Aaron R. Gagnon for the degree of Master of Science in Sustainable Forest

The relationship between vehicle miles traveled and economic activity

Creator:: Eckstein, Nathan
Abstract:: Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the U.S. have exhibited an upward trend over time similar to that observed for GDP and personal income. While conventional wisdom suggests that economic growth leads to more driving and thus higher VMT, it is theoretically possible that the causation could also be the other...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Relationship Between Vehicle Miles Traveled and Economic Activity Abstract approved

Economic optimization of forest biomass processing and transport

Creator:: Zamora Cristales, René Arturo
Abstract:: An economic analysis and optimization of forest biomass processing and transportation at the operational level is presented. Renewable sources of energy have captured the interest of public and private institutions to develop cost-effective supply chains to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. The production of energy from forest harvest residues constitutes...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Economic Optimization of Forest Biomass Processing and

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An examination of strategic challenges and opportunities in the wood-based building product industry

The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

Implications of the 2008 Lacey Act amendments : insights from the wood products industry

Local Specialty and Niche Market Potential: Opportunities for Oregon's Small Woodland Owners

Defining and comparing risks and success measures of the reference design process and traditional new product development processes

The behavior of economic agents and market performance

Corporate social responsibility and its implementation : a study of companies in the global forest sector

Economic Benefit from Allowing Wildfires to Burn in Federal East-Side Cascade Forests

The relationship between vehicle miles traveled and economic activity

Economic optimization of forest biomass processing and transport

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