From decision-making process analysis to modelling and simulation of farm management: application to work organization in two rice-based farming systems

1997 ◽  
pp. 137-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.-Y. Le Gal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Modelling And Simulation ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Management Application

Demystifying intuition as the main decision system used by farmers.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nuthall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Decision System ◽  
Intuitive Process ◽  
Important Improvement ◽  
The Many ◽  
Do So

Abstract Over the decades, many researchers have explored the concept of intuition as a decision-making process. However, most of this research does not quantify the important aspects of intuition, making it difficult to fully understand its nature and improve the intuitive process, enabling an efficient method of decision-making. The research described here, through a review of the relevant literature, demystifies intuition as a decision system by isolating the important intuition determining variables and relating them to quantitative intuition research. As most farm decisions are made through intuition, farmers, consultants, researchers and students of farm management will find the review useful, stimulating efforts for improving decision-making skills in farmers. The literature search covered all journals and recent decades and includes articles that consider the variables to be targeted in improving intuitive skill. This provides a basis for thinking about intuition and its improvement within the farming world. It was found from the literature that most of the logical areas that should influence decisions do in fact do so and should be targeted in improving intuition. One of the most important improvement processes is a farmer's self-criticism skills through using a decision diary in conjunction with reflection and consultation leading to improved decisions. This must be in conjunction with understanding, and learning about, the many other variables also impacting on intuitive skill.

scholarly journals Possibilities of Farm Management Decision Support

2003 ◽  
pp. 287-292
Author(s):  
Róbert Szilágyi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The West ◽  
Decision Supporting ◽  
Decision Supporting System ◽  
Management Decision Support

Computer science has a major role in the decision-making process of farmers. In this process IT can be applied to virtually all phase: from infromation gathering to information processing. I am examining the position of informatics in the decision-making process. IT can be used in every single phases of the decision-making process. In my essay the useage of Internet and the possibilities it can provide play a significant role.After a brief description of the IT position of Hungarian agriculture I am introducing some programs, which can be used in the management’s decision-supporting system. Besides the Hungarian experiences the West European surveys also comfirm the application of Information Technology.

Intervention Characteristics Considered in Health Educators’ Adoption Decision-Making Process

2022 ◽  
pp. 109019812110671
Author(s):  
Thomas Strayer E. ◽  
Laura E. Balis ◽  
Lauren E. Kennedy ◽  
NithyaPriya S. Ramalingam ◽  
Meghan L. Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
External Funding ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Attribute Importance ◽  
Adoption Decision ◽  
Intervention Cost

It is well known that perceptions of intervention characteristics (e.g., cost, source, evidence strength and quality) are a critical link from dissemination to implementation. What is less known is the process by which researchers understand the characteristics most valued by key intermediaries (i.e., real-world decision-makers), particularly in the federal system of Cooperative Extension. In Extension, university-based specialists are available to assist county-based agents in program selection, delivery, and evaluation. For this work, a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design was used to conduct surveys and semi-structured interviews, informed by the Diffusion of Innovations theory and Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. Educators and specialists were recruited across 47 states to identify characteristics of health promotion interventions that facilitate the adoption decision-making process. Analysis of intervention attribute importance survey data was conducted through a one-way ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc test to determine individual variable differences between responses. Interviews underwent a conventional content analysis. In total, 121 educators and 47 specialists from 33 states completed the survey. Eighteen educators and 10 specialists completed interviews. Educators and specialists valued components such as the community need for the intervention, and potential reach compared with other components including previous delivery settings and external funding of the intervention ( p < .05). Qualitative data indicated divergence between educators and specialists; educators valued understanding the intervention cost (time and training) and specialists valued the evidence base and external funding available. Intervention developers should communicate information valued by different stakeholders to improve the adoption of evidence-based interventions.

Learning from the historical failure of farm management models to aid management practice. Part 1. The rise and demise of theoretical models of farm economics

2006 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. McCown ◽  
L. E. Brennan ◽  
K. A. Parton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Farming Systems Research

A potential source of lessons for agricultural modellers aspiring to influence farm decision making is the historical experience of agricultural economists in the field, variously termed ‘Farm Management Research’ or ‘Farm Management’. Although the histories of Farm Management in the USA and in Australia differ significantly, in both cases the field was originally characterised by pragmatic on-farm research by agricultural scientists and later taken over by agricultural economists committed to theory-based economic analysis to enable rational planning and decision making. But in both countries, it became painfully evident to reflective participants that model-based Farm Management was not proving relevant to practical managers of farms. An insightful few went further to conclude not just that theoretical models of practice had not been relevant but that they could not be relevant, and since the late 1970s, the field has been in crisis. In this series of 2 papers, we seek insights that might explain this extraordinary ‘market’ failure of models that generate theoretical best practice as a basis for intervention. As an ‘experiment’, the history of Farm Management is enriched by the discontinuity between 2 ‘eras’ characterised by 2 contrasting intervention approaches, an ‘early’ interactive and pragmatic era and a ‘late’ academic and theoretical era. In this first paper, after a brief history of the early pragmatic era and the ‘take-over’ by economic theorists, we analyse the ‘crisis of relevance’ that led to demise, relying heavily on the remarkable intellectual journey of John Dillon, the first Professor of Farm Management in Australia who turned from being elder economic theoretician to pioneer philosopher of pragmatic Farming Systems Research. The significant turn to Farming Systems Research by disillusioned Farm Management economists in the 1980s was preceded by a turn to another systems approach 2 decades earlier, that of agricultural systems modelling. Learning from the autecology of these significant systems efforts to influence the management of farms is the aim of the second paper in this series.

scholarly journals How Far Can Citizens Influence the Decision-Making Process? Analysis of the Effectiveness of Referenda in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in 1989–2015

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kużelewska
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
National Level ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Central European ◽  
Political Role

AbstractThis article explores the political role of a referendum in Central European countries, in particular in Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. In this article, political effectiveness is understood as a possibility to influence the decision-making process by citizens through a referendum. The transformation of political systems in Central European states from socialist/communist to democratic ones resulted in increasing interest in the notion of referendum, one of the common forms of direct democracy. However, most referenda have been abused for political purposes. The focus of this article is a referendum used at the national level. This study examines the use of a referendum in Central European states from 1989 to 2015. The database presents, country by country, the subject matter of voting, people’s participation and the results in order to show the citizens’ opportunity (or lack of it) to express their opinions and to contribute to policy-making by circumventing the standard legislative process. The aim of this paper is to analyze referenda in the selected countries and to verify two hypotheses. Firstly, the weak use of a referendum and a small size of complementation of representative democracy. Secondly, the citizens’ belief in a referendum as an element of communication and consultation between authorities and society.

USING DECISION-PROCESS ANALYSIS IN OPTIMISING PROBLEM SOLVING IN TOURISM MARKETING

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Igor Brajdić ◽  
Tomislav Jurković ◽  
Sandra Pokos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Problem Situations ◽  
Marketing Function ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Tourism Enterprises

For the range of problem situations belonging to tourism marketing, specific methods and techniques have been designed with the aim of making these situations easier to resolve. In addition to using such methods and techniques, it is possible to optimise the quality of resolving problem situations in tourism marketing through consistent adherence to the stages constituting the decision-making process in its broader sense. In analysing problem situations in marketing through the stages of decision-making, focus is placed on the client as the consumer of services in tourism. Such an approach has been realised in several tourism enterprises in Croatia in concrete cases in the field of promotion and procurement as a part of the marketing function. Overbooking and the level of communication among employees are standard problems encountered in hotel companies. The study has shown that the lack of communication within and between company levels is the reason why these problems are greater than they should be. The theoretical aspects of the decision process have been applied to the case of purchasing commercial goods, providing a better understanding of the process of purchasing commercial goods.

scholarly journals Modelling & Simulation as a Strategic Tool for Decision-Making Process: A Dairy Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiani Eccher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Continuous Production ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Modelling And Simulation ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Modelling Simulation

The Dairy Industry faces many challenges compared to other sectors. On the supply side due to the nature of the raw material, large inventories are not applied; during the manufacturing process, the continuous production is highly sensitive to any sort of unplanned disruption; and on the demand side, the market dictates the commodity prices. In response to the growth in competition, dairy organizations’ strategy must incorporate technology into their daily processes in order to become more efficient, profitable and sustainable. To achieve desired levels of improvement, Modelling and Simulation has been increasing in popularity in the decision-making process. Using a Dairy company as a case study, this paper has highlighted the potential for Modelling and Simulation to be used as a powerful strategic tool for decision-making processes.

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