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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

The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests

Creator:: Im, Eun Ho
Abstract:: This study considered regional forest policies for sequestering carbon in existing forests in western Oregon. A model of log markets in western Oregon was employed to examine the impacts of forest policy changes on future carbon stock, harvests, and management activities. A carbon tax program, as a mitigation option for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: agricultural and forest products prices as land bases and product outputs change or landowners’ behavioral

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

Evaluating the effectiveness of interaction strategies between product developer and supply chain using activity based modeling in environmental benign product design

Creator:: Wang, Bo
Abstract:: With growing concerns on environment impact of industrial product development, the product developers are seeking better solutions to achieve desired environmental benign requirements by the regulators and customers besides economic growth. During the last decade, some of the most successful product development companies (such as HP) have established their own...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Driver? Another important aspect in product development is: Quality. Today, the consumers desire for

An investigation of factors affecting the optimal output log distribution from mechanical harvesting and processing systems

Creator:: Marshall, Hamish Douglas
Abstract:: Globally the forest harvesting industry is becoming increasingly mechanized. Driving this trend is the desire to increase productivity and reduce cost, as well as to improve labor-related issues. With mechanization comes an in-forest platform for the introduction of state-of-the-art communication and measurement technologies, and powerful on-board computers. These systems have...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Forest Engineering presented on March 2, 2005. Title: An Investigation of Factors Affecting the Optimal

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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

The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests

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

Evaluating the effectiveness of interaction strategies between product developer and supply chain using activity based modeling in environmental benign product design

An investigation of factors affecting the optimal output log distribution from mechanical harvesting and processing systems

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