Social Networks and Technology Adoption

This study analyzes social network effects on Kenyan smallholders' decision to adopt improved natural resource management techniques. These effects are decomposed into effects from social influence and learning through networks (strong ties), group effects, weak ties effects, informal finance, and conflicts arising from technological externalities, controlling for non-network effects.Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,

Adapting supply chain management for local foods logistics

Supply chain management is adapted to the particularities of local foods production characterised by short chains and intensive horizontal and vertical networking in an integrated context. A case study of chain of local foods logistics to a common retailer in Norway empirically grounds what constitutes "supply chain management of local foods". Findings based on analysis applying contingency theory indicate that local foods chains not only are short in structure. They are differentiated grounded in a developed local reputation. They also resemble in structure as well as operations more service supply chains than modernistic supply chains due of heightened reciprocal interdependencies demanding quality networking. The exchange economy is therefore vital in managing local foods logistics. Keywords: Local foods logistics; Supply chain management; Contingency theory; Interdependencies; Exchange economypublishedVersio

Adapting Supply Chain Management for Local Foods Logistics

Supply chain management is adapted to the particularities of local foods production characterised by short chains and intensive horizontal and vertical networking in an integrated context. A case study of chain of local foods logistics to a common retailer in Norway empirically grounds what constitutes "supply chain management of local foods". Findings based on analysis applying contingency theory indicate that local foods chains not only are short in structure. They are differentiated grounded in a developed local reputation. They also resemble in structure as well as operations more service supply chains than modernistic supply chains due of heightened reciprocal interdependencies demanding quality networking. The exchange economy is therefore vital in managing local foods logistics

Social Networks and Technology Adoption

This study analyzes social network effects on Kenyan smallholders' decision to adopt improved natural resource management techniques. These effects are decomposed into effects from social influence and learning through networks (strong ties), group effects, weak ties effects, informal finance, and conflicts arising from technological externalities, controlling for non-network effects

Adapting Supply Chain Management for Local Foods Logistics

Supply chain management is adapted to the particularities of local foods production characterised by short chains and intensive horizontal and vertical networking in an integrated context. A case study of chain of local foods logistics to a common retailer in Norway empirically grounds what constitutes "supply chain management of local foods". Findings based on analysis applying contingency theory indicate that local foods chains not only are short in structure. They are differentiated grounded in a developed local reputation. They also resemble in structure as well as operations more service supply chains than modernistic supply chains due of heightened reciprocal interdependencies demanding quality networking. The exchange economy is therefore vital in managing local foods logistics

Social Learning, Social Influence, and Projection Bias: A Caution on Inferences Based on Proxy Reporting of Peer Behavior

This study explores the consequences of conflating social learning and social influence concepts and of the widespread use of proxy-reported behavioral data for accurate understanding of learning from others. Our empirical analysis suggests that proxy reporting is more accurate for new innovations, about which social learning is more plausible, than for mature technologies. Furthermore, proxy-reporting errors are correlated with respondent attributes, suggesting projection bias. Self- and proxy-reported variables generate different regression results, raising questions about inferences based on error-prone, proxy-reported peer behaviors. Self-reported peer behavior consistently exhibits statistically insignificant effects on network members' adoption behavior, suggesting an absence of social effects. (c) 2010 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved..

Det regionale i det internasjonale

Temaet for denne boka er det regionale i det internasjonale. Bidraga tek på ulikt vis opp sambandet mellom det globale og det lokale. Fokuset er på tilhøvet mellom samfunnsspørsmål på ulike geografiske nivå. Implisitt vert det fokusert på tilhøvet mellom det fjerne og det nære. Dei 19 kapitla i boka fell inn under ein av følgande sju kategoriar: * Regionale aktørar på internasjonale arenaer * Nettbaserte løysinger for kontakt, kommunikasjon og samhandling * Internasjonal kollektiv læring i dei offentlege helse- og omsorgstenestene * Innvandring og integrering * Internasjonalisering av oppvekst og utdanning * Regionale produkt i ein internasjonal marknad * Globalt næringsliv med regional forankring Tekstane er basert på presentasjonar som vart haldne på Fjordkonferansen 2017