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Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher’s grazing practice choices
No full textRotational grazing has the potential to provide both economic and environmental benefits; however, the set of ranchers that adopts is much smaller than the set that regards rotational grazing as a win-win practice. To investigate this adoption gap and learn about adoption decisions and motivations, we survey 874 ranchers on the U.S. Great Plains. We find that a large proportion of surveyed ranchers who view rotational grazing as win-win for both profit and the environment do not adopt the practice. We also find that win-win non-adopters are a constrained group for most potential challenges to rotational grazing adoption, especially for high initial costs, water resource limitations, and ranch conditions. Some of these impediments could be relieved by capital to which, however, win-win non-adopters have limited access. Win-win nonadopters are more likely to adopt rotational grazing than others when a one-time subsidy is offered, suggesting that win-win non-adopters hold promise as a target group for subsidies to reduce the cost of adoption. Our analysis shows the importance of understanding the specifics of an adoption gap when making and implementing policies.JEL Codes: D91, Q16, Q18, Q57This is a manuscript of an article published as Che, Yuyuan, Hongli Feng, and David A. Hennessy. "Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices." Ecological Economics 209 (2023): 107826. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107826
Will Adoption Occur if a Practice is Win-Win for Profit and the Environment? An Application to a Rancher’s Grazing Practice Choices
No full textRotational grazing has the potential to provide both economic and environmental benefits; however, the set of ranchers that adopts is much smaller than the set that regards rotational grazing as a win-win practice. To investigate this adoption gap and learn about adoption decisions and motivations, we survey 874 ranchers on the U.S. Great Plains. We find that a large proportion of surveyed ranchers who view rotational grazing as win-win for both profit and the environment do not adopt the practice. We also find that win-win non-adopters are a constrained group for most potential challenges to rotational grazing adoption, especially for high initial costs, water resource limitations, and ranch conditions. Some of these impediments could be relieved by capital to which, however, win-win non-adopters have limited access. Win-win non- adopters are more likely to adopt rotational grazing than others when a one-time subsidy is offered, suggesting that win-win non-adopters hold promise as a target group for subsidies to reduce the cost of adoption. Our analysis shows the importance of understanding the specifics of an adoption gap when making and implementing policies
Differences in male and female athletes and their perceptions of an ideal coach with respect to locus of control, competitiveness, goal-orientation and win-orientation
No full textPlan BThe current study examined differences between male and female athletes and their perceptions of an ideal coach. The study focused on internal vs. external locus of control, competitiveness, goal-orientation and win-orientation as a basis to determine possible differences in an ideal coach. An paired-samples t-test was run to test the similar-to-me effect that states that people will choose a leader or manager like themselves. 104 female and 98 male athletes participated in the study from track and field, baseball, softball and basketball. Results indicated that men preferred a more internal locus, competitive and win-oriented coach than women did. Analysis of the self-reports of the athletes reflected these same findings with men scoring significantly higher on internal locus of control, competitiveness and win-orientation. Analysis of the similar-to-me effect indicated that the athletes did not prefer a coach that is similar to themselves. Each variable in this analysis was significantly different at the .001 level from the ideal coach scale to the self-report scale. Findings thus indicate that men and women will prefer different coaches, but will not choose that ideal coach according to their own personality
INVESTMENT APPRAISAL AND DECISION IN LPG TERMINAL AND JETTY PROJECT (Win Than, 2018)
No full textThe focus of the study is on the Investment Appraisal and Capital Investment decision of LPG Terminal and Jetty of Elite Petrochemical Company Limited. In order to fulfil the objective of the study, descriptive research method is used to collect both primary and secondary data. The primary data are obtained through personal interview with top level management of the company and secondary data are collected from the feasibility study report of the project, MOGE website and some seminars on LPG market in Myanmar. It was noted that market feasibility study was conducted and then capital investment appraisal techniques were applied to identify the financial viability of the project. The initial cash outlay of the project was estimated as per the engineering design and bill of quantities. The financial performance and cash flow projections for 10 years period were extracted as per market feasibility study and budgeted cost and expenses. Three investment appraisal techniques such as Payback period, Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return were applied to evaluate the viability of the project. It was witnessed that Payback period of the project is about 6 years, Net Present Value is positive at 14% discount rate over the net cash flow for the period of 10 years and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is 15.17% at which rate discounted net cash flow for 10 years of the project is exactly the same as total initial cash outlay. The management of the Company therefore decided to proceed with the project. It was however observed that as per post completion audit of the project, actual initial cash outlay is greater than the initially estimated one by MMK- 1,599 million due to project delay and depreciation of local currency and the actual financial performance for the period of 8 months from April to November 2018 is also well below the projection as a result of rising price of LPG mixture in the world market and drastic depreciation of local currency against US Dollar, about 18% drop of local currency value throughout 2018
Win-back success beyond purchases: The true value of a lost customer
No full textCustomer win-back aims to create value for the firm by reacquiring profitable customers. However, looking beyond purchases is yet incidental in win-back management. Contrarily, customer engagement value (CEV) embraces that customers can create value in many ways, even without purchasing, e.g, by referring other customers. With two experiments, the authors integrate CEV with win-back management. Results show that CEV depends on a variety of factors, as the win-back offer made and the defection reasons. While the results illustrate that firms have a substantial impact on CEV, this impact is not equal in contractual versus non-contractual relationships. Without a contract, CEV is independent of win-back success in terms of purchases, implying that a merely purchase-based view is misleading. Instead, lost customers are more than just lost revenue: the success of win-back campaigns should incorporate non-transactional aspects of CEV to adequately capture the true value of a lost customer
Spending to Win
No full textGovernments in some democracies target economic policies, like industrial subsidies, to small groups at the expense of many. Why do some governments redistribute more narrowly than others? Their willingness to selectively target economic benefits, like subsidies to businesses, depends on the way politicians are elected and the geographic distribution of economic activities. Based on interviews with government ministers and bureaucrats, as well as parliamentary records, industry publications, local media coverage, and new quantitative data, Spending to Win: Political Institutions, Economic Geography, and Government Subsidies demonstrates that government policy-making can be explained by the combination of electoral institutions and economic geography. Specifically, it shows how institutions interact with economic geography to influence countries' economic policies and international economic relations. Identical institutions have wide-ranging effects depending on the context in which they operate. No single institution is a panacea for issues, such as income inequality, international economic conflict, or minority representation
Ba Win and Pete Baumann
No full textSelected excerpts from an event at which Ba Win and Pete Baumann were the guest speakers. The full transcript may be restricted. To request access contact the Simon’s Rock College Archives.
Ba Win: Mrs. Hall told me that she thought that a variant on even a good American high schools might be possible based on her conversations with her alumnae, her Concord graduates who had come back to visit her, and she asked them how are things going, and these young women at the best schools in America, they would say “Fine, it’s OK.” without much enthusiasm but she knew they were doing well, and when she dug further she found that what had happened was that she had a bunch of bright students at Concord, and she had great teachers working for her, and in a private school you don’t have to conform to state standards, you can do whatever you want within reason, and what had happened was that... the teachers would raise the bar and the students would respond to the teachers raising the bar and on and on it went. So much so that it wasn’t until their sophomore or even their junior years that her Concord Academy students really encountered real work, that without meaning to, they had anticipated the first two years of college, and they had gone into it, and so it really brought to Mrs. Hall the question about the convention that 18 year olds are only supposed to be doing this much, in fact her 18 year old students were doing a whole lot more than that.
Ba Win: For years and years and years, after the original campus was built, and it was a very nice new campus, we did not have sophisticated facilities. Science was taught with a piece of chalk, photo labs were as basic as they could be, but basic as they were, 3 weeks ago in the New York Times, they had a series of winter scenes in the city, 10 pictures, utterly beautiful, all [by] Simon’s Rock [alumni Jan Staller ‘70] At a time when we had very primitive performance facilities we nevertheless produced the Coen Brothers, Ethan and Joel Coen, so we’ve had extraordinary people come out of this place. We have more than a piece of chalk now to do the sciences, and that’s how it should be, when you recruit the most talented people that you can find you owe them the appropriate facilities but the tradition of really teaching, not just using bells and whistles, has persisted.
Pete Baumann: I thought of an idea, wouldn’t it be nice to put a little water in [the Library Atrium] or something or something like that so I dug a ditch and got some stones and river rocks, and put in some black plastic and some water. [...] Ace who was there by himself, and one of the guys decided, you know, throw in a couple extra frogs and he ate them, except for one, and that one survived and we called him Deuce. Deuce had a little bit of a problem, he couldn’t swim well, he couldn’t swallow well and I had to kind of hand feed him, and everyone would come in and take pictures of the frogs, little kids would come in with their parents, maybe brothers and sisters, maybe prospective students. I used to bring them out and show them the frogs, well some of these little kids grew up and became students at Simon’s Rock, graduated, and brought their kids in, that’s how long. The two bullfrogs were in there for 15 years, Ace and Deuce were, and they were very tame, the bullfrogs were, the students used to pick them up and pet them, and if the students were sitting there the frogs would come out and sit right there between them like they were part of the conversation, it was really something.
Ba Win: Betty Hall was very successful at Concord Academy at a time when the women\u27s voice was very nascent, she was one of the people who by being a strong leader was showing that generation who were at school with her that all the usual rules and limitations should not apply, they were ridiculous, they should fall away. But she was also of an older style, she would begin a meeting by saying “Ladies” and when she started Simon’s Rock she had one foot in her mother\u27s generation and one foot in the next generation. It’s important to remember that she started the school in the second half of the 60s when questioning authority was very much en vogue. She took care to hire younger teachers, she did not want to hire very experienced people because she was sure once they came they would revert to what they were familiar with, she wanted something new and as a result she went out and hired a whole lot of recently minted MA and PhDs, but they were also stepping out of the 60s having just come out of college where protests and demands were commonplace, so, basically Betty collided with the 60s and she found it really, really hard. In many ways the form of education that she proposed was transformative, it was very different, it wasn’t you sit there obediently and silently and I’ll tell you and you record it, and of course if you have questions I’m happy to answer. It was going from that to challenging everything.https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-oral_hist/1002/thumbnail.jp
Are three points for a win really better than two? Theoretical and empirical evidence for German soccer
No full textThe effects of the three-point rule in first league German soccer are tested empirically and compared to games from the German cup-competition. The inclusion of cup games ensures that changes in league games can be attributed to the three-point rule. As a result of their relative devaluation, the number of draws should decrease. Furthermore, an increase in the number of close wins is expected. The strategy of a leading team becomes more defensive, resulting in fewer goal shootings by that team, as well as fewer shooting opportunities for the opponent. Empirical evidence supporting these effects is found. --
DEVELOPMENT OF SERVICE QUALITY SCALE FOR RESTAURANTS IN YANGON (Win Than Dar, 2020)
No full textThis thesis aims to explore the service quality scale for restaurants in Yangon with identification of its dimensions. To validate the service quality dimensions the study analysed the effects of restaurant service quality dimensions on overall customer satisfaction and their behaviour intentions towards restaurants. This study used qualitative method (focus group) and quantitative research methods (descriptive statistics and regression analysis). Focus group participants were customers who had eaten in restaurants in last two months. 414 respondents were selected by systematic sampling method from 10 selected restaurants to collect data for the development of restaurants service quality scale. In addition, another 403 respondents are selected to confirm developed restaurant service quality scale through analysing the important level of service quality scale for restaurants. Secondary data were collected from text books, previous research papers, various publications and the internet. In the first part of the study, a new service quality scale for restaurants in Yangon has been developed with five dimensions, namely, interior décor, assurance and empathy, food service quality, reliability and responsiveness, and cleanliness and layout. In the second part of study, the results of regression analysis revealed that there is a positively significant effect of food quality, and reliability and responsiveness on overall customer satisfaction. The effect of food quality is stronger than that of reliability and responsiveness on overall customer satisfaction. Overall customer satisfaction has positive and significant effect on behavioural intentions. Finally, all of the developed restaurant service qualities are important for restaurant customers. It can be concluded that new service quality scale for restaurants is on the right track
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