Yams (Dioscorea species of family Dioscoreaceae) are important for food, income, and sociocultural activities especially in West and Central Africa and account for about 93% of the world’s annual production of 38 million tonnes. Breeding of yams is focused primarily on the two dominant species, D. rotundata Poir. and D. alata L., and it is carried ...
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Published in Journal of Commercial Biotechnology
As biotechnology companies mature, the focus of their activities shifts from a research-and-development orientation to a business model based on marketed products that deliver revenue and earnings. Companies are thus striving to occupy key positions at every stage of the industry's evolving value chain, covering each step from gene identification t...
The subordinated central point of the work is the practical life target to contribute to a better (proactive) steering and therewith the survivability and adaptability of the company. To be able to warrant this, an interdisciplinary approach is necessary which comprises not only economical logics and the increasing informational logics which deeply...
In order to survive in today's business environment characterized by strong competition, it is no longer enough to be an efficient company. The efficiency in the entire value chain of a company is necessary to satisfy today's demanding customer in term of quality-cost-time. One of the tools used by many Japanese companies since the 1960s to satisfy...
Published in Journal of Financial Services Marketing
The aim of this paper is to provide business-to-customer financial services companies with an insight into the relevance of business-to-business segmentation for their companies. The whole area of understanding customers is being turned upside down by rapidly developing new patterns of intermediation, so almost paradoxically there is a much stronge...
This paper presents a model of service quality which is based on both internal and external customer and supplier groups in supply chain partners. Two possible types of internal customers are proposed in intra-firm inter-departmental relationships and two types of interaction are proposed in inter-firm inter-departmental relationships. The manageme...
The understanding of value is often described in terms of an industrial view in which value creation is linear, additive process. The emerging view takes a different approach to value creation: it’s interactive, relationships-based and synchronic. But either of these views capture fully the value creating importance of elements present especially i...
A hyper chain is a simple, yet powerful conceptual extension to the traditional client-server computing paradigm. It suggests a three layer model, including, besides the client and the server, also a directory service provider. Through this service, clients can first search and reach suitable business partners, before embarking on fully custom and ...
