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...
This dissertation addresses three topics on information economics. Generally, information is not perfect or costless as classical economics assumes. Thus, a consumer searches information at his cost or a seller provides information at his cost. First, chapter 2 presents a theoretical model where a consumer searches for local brand information....
The objective of this monograph is to illustrate how the elements of an investment analysis are brought together to form a basis for sound decisions on new plant investments. These elements include financial analysis, raw material analysis, and market analysis.
The financial analysis consists of determining the initial investment required...
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...
You can enhance your sales success significantly by better
understanding your own personality and style of selling
as well as the personality and buying styles of your customers.
This understanding can provide you with strategies for
approaching, and selling to, different buyer types.
The study of highlead logging operations through the use of
statistical models is investigated, and their potential use for estimating
and control of operations examined.
During the preliminary phases of the study 16 work elements
and 26 influencing variables are identified and measurement criteria
developed for each. A coding system...
Old-growth forests provide an important resource in terms of both
timber and non-timber values. Northwest Oregon represents an area
where this resource is scarce and options for preserving old-growth
habitat are limited. This study identifies the old-growth resource on
public lands within the area, suggests a range of preservation
alternatives...
The objective of this study was to measure the consequences of alternative
forest management intensification programs. These consequences
include future harvest levels, silvicultural labor and capital
requirements, and the income and employment generated directly and indirectly.
The system utilizes the Timber Resource Economic Estimation
System (TREES) model, a harvest scheduling...
A descriptive model of community stability is developed which
can be used to gauge the achievement of community stability in
federal sustained yield units. Community stability is defined which
provides the framework on which the model was created.
The achievement of the four goals of the 1944 Sustained Yield
Act...
To abstract the fundamental market structures of stumpage sold from the Siuslaw National Forest, a three-equation structural model with different assumptions on private cut was empirically derived. Under the private cut price-fixed assumption, the structural model can be simplified as a single-equation model with stumpage price as dependent variable and...