"This teaching case provides an example of adopting e-commerce in the interaction and trading activities between participants in the food sector through a typical agricultural products e-commerce company in China." It can be used to teach graduate/postgraduate students in agricultural business, MBA and executive programmes about the agri-food e-commerce business model.
International: Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20420
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163 pages, Authors' contention is that "the quest for corporate profits has ridden roughshod over questions of public health, freedom of choice and ecological sustainability."
Posted at http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/9E5C776C165AC855862575860080C3FC?OpenDocument, Via STLtoday.com. 4 pages., Reports on staffing and programming efforts by Monsanto Company to interact with stakeholders through blogs and other social media.
Available online at www.centmapress.org, This study distinguished five categories of inter-organizational network relations: very strong operational, strong sustainable, moderate social, weak innovative and very weak shared resources. The studied networks were characterized by strong activity and actor ties and weak resources bonds. "Specifically, the lack of shared resources might negatively influence the networks innovation and sustainable in the future."
