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

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    Tokarczyk, John A.
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    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...
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    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.

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    Crandall, Mindy S.
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    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...
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    Forest Products Market and Biomass Use ........................22 3. Economic Theory and Model

  • The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests

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    Im, Eun Ho
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    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...
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    agricultural and forest products prices as land bases and product outputs change or landowners’ behavioral

  • The behavior of economic agents and market performance

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    Gokhale, Jayendra
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    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...
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    Economics, presented on May 15, 2013. Title: The Behavior of Economic Agents and Market Performance

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

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    Marshall, Hamish Douglas
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    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...
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    Forest Engineering presented on March 2, 2005. Title: An Investigation of Factors Affecting the Optimal

  • Corporate social responsibility in the forest products industry : an issues management approach

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    Panwar, Rajat
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    Business is a social institution and society has always designated a role for business which has been undergoing changes with changing societal values and paradigms. Thus while business has always had some responsibilities, the modern connotation of the words corporate social responsibility commonly refers to business assuming responsibilities in economic,...
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    forest products industry’s success in fulfilling its economic, social and environmental

  • Economic optimization of forest biomass processing and transport

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    Zamora Cristales, René Arturo
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    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...
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    Economic Optimization of Forest Biomass Processing and

  • Three essays on private landowners' response to incentives for carbon sequestration through forest management and afforestation

    Creator:
    Kim, Taeyoung
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    This dissertation consists of three essays on private landowners' response to incentives for carbon sequestration in forests. The first essay examines private landowner response to incentives for carbon sequestration through various combinations of intermediate management practices. The second essay focuses on agricultural landowners' willingness to participate in an incentive program...
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    studies which examine landowners’ forest MP decisions and carbon sequestration potentials in economic

  • Essays on the effect of product recalls and mergers on firm performance

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    Yan, Wenfeng
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    This dissertation investigates the effect of endogenous and exogenous events on firm behavior and performance. These are fundamental questions in economics. The contribution of this study is threefold. First, it provides estimates of the impact of mergers on railroad efficiency, which has important antitrust implications. Second, it provides new estimates...
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    employed all these frontier estimation methods on the issue of the economic impact of a product recall

  • Thinning aged Douglas-fir : an analysis of mobilization costs and a log bucking strategy for revenue improvement

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    Pilkerton, Stephen J.
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    Contract harvest operations have become the preferred approach to reducing the largest cost component of timber production through free market competition amongst logging contractors bidding or negotiating for work. The goal of this research was to investigate economic components of harvesting operations not previously studied for steep slope thinning harvests...
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    . Pilkerton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Engineering presented on June 12, 2009. Title