Five decades of small business policy in England: policy as a value proposition or window dressing?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Irwin ◽  
Jonathan M. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Window Dressing ◽  
A Value

Regular estimates of paddock pasture mass can improve profitability on New Zealand dairy farms

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.C. Beukes ◽  
S. Mccarthy ◽  
C.M. Wims ◽  
A.J. Romera
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Grazing Management ◽  
Average Error ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Perfect Knowledge ◽  
Operating Profit ◽  
A Value ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Imperfect Knowledge ◽  
Farm Scale

Paddock selection is an important component of grazing management and is based on either some estimate of pasture mass (cover) or the interval since last grazing for each paddock. Obtaining estimates of cover to guide grazing management can be a time consuming task. A value proposition could assist farmers in deciding whether to invest resources in obtaining such information. A farm-scale simulation exercise was designed to estimate the effect of three levels of knowledge of individual paddock cover on profitability: 1) "perfect knowledge", where cover per paddock is known with perfect accuracy, 2) "imperfect knowledge", where cover per paddock is estimated with an average error of 15%, 3) "low knowledge", where cover is not known, and paddocks are selected based on longest time since last grazing. Grazing management based on imperfect knowledge increased farm operating profit by approximately $385/ha compared with low knowledge, while perfect knowledge added a further $140/ha. The main driver of these results is the level of accuracy in daily feed allocation, which increases with improving knowledge of pasture availability. This allows feed supply and demand to be better matched, resulting in less incidence of under- and over-feeding, higher milk production, and more optimal post-grazing residuals to maximise pasture regrowth. Keywords: modelling, paddock selection, pasture cover

scholarly journals Legal Complexities of Animal Welfare in Australia: Do On-Animal Sensors Offer a Future Option?

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Jaime Manning ◽  
Deborah Power ◽  
Amy Cosby
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Continuous Measurement ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Behavioural State ◽  
A Value ◽  
Welfare Measures ◽  
The Cost

The five freedoms and, more recently, the five domains of animal welfare provide internationally recognised frameworks to evaluate animal welfare practices which recognise both the physical and mental wellbeing needs of animals, providing a balanced view of their ability to cope in their environment. Whilst there are many techniques to measure animal welfare, the challenge lies with how best to align these with future changes in definitions and expectations, advances in science, legislative requirements, and technology improvements. Furthermore, enforcement of current animal welfare legislation in relation to livestock in Australia and the reliance on self-audits for accreditation schemes, challenges our ability to objectively measure animal welfare. On-animal sensors have enormous potential to address animal welfare concerns and assist with legislative compliance, through continuous measurement and monitoring of an animal’s behavioural state and location being reflective of their wellbeing. As reliable animal welfare measures evolve and the cost of on-animal sensors reduce, technology adoption will increase as the benefits across the supply chain are realised. Future adoption of on-animal sensors by producers will primarily depend on a value proposition for their business being clear; algorithm development to ensure measures are valid and reliable; increases in producer knowledge, willingness, and trust in data governance; and improvements in data transmission and connectivity.

A value proposition for cyberspace management in organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jestine Philip ◽  
Manjula S Salimath
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
A Value ◽  
Organizational Value

The rapidly increasing significance of cyberspace and the corresponding use of new cyberspace technologies are seen in private, public, and nonprofit organizations across the globe. However, along with the abundant organizational advantages of operating in cyberspace, it also creates vulnerabilities such as the possibility of cyberattacks which can erode value. In light of these current realities, we propose a value creation agenda for organizations that operate in cyberspace. We suggest that when organizations effectively manage the risks associated with cyberattacks and continue to attain benefits from cyberspace, there is a positive contribution toward organizational value.

Identifikation und Auswahl von Business Ecosystems*/Identification and selection of business ecosystems. Procedure and strategic and operative integration in industrial companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (04) ◽  
pp. 294-301
Author(s):  
R. E. Geitner ◽  
T. Bauernhansl
Keyword(s):  
Value Proposition ◽  
Business Ecosystem ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
A Value ◽  
Basic Procedure ◽  
Business Ecosystems ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
Operational Integration ◽  
A Company ◽  
Selection Of

Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung führt zu neuen und konvergierenden Produkt- und Dienstleistungen und effizienteren Prozessen. In Verbindung mit einem Wandel der Bedürfnisse führt sie darüber hinaus auch zu einem veränderten Nutzerverhalten und Nutzenverständnis der Kunden. Zur flexiblen und schnellen Umsetzung von passgenau individualisierten, oft branchenübergreifenden Wertangeboten und der Absicherung des Kundenzugangs wird es zukünftig wettbewerbsentscheidend sein, sich im richtigen Business Ecosystem – also der Gruppe von Akteuren die interagieren müssen, um ein entsprechendes Wertangebot zu realisieren und den entsprechenden Kundenzugang haben – zu bewegen und dieses mitzugestalten. Der Beitrag beschreibt das grundsätzliche Vorgehen zur Identifizierung und Auswahl relevanter Business Ecosystems sowie deren strategische und operative Einbindung in ein Unternehmen.   The ongoing digitization leads to new and converging product benefits and more efficient processes. In connection with a change in needs it also leads to a change in user behaviour and understanding of the benefits for customers. For the flexible and fast implementation of customized, individualized, often cross-industry value propositions and the safeguarding of access to customers, it will be crucial in the future to act and help to shape the relevant business ecosystems (group of actors that need to interact in order to realize a value proposition or to have access to customers). The article describes the basic procedure for identifying and selecting relevant business ecosystems and their strategic and operational integration into a company.

scholarly journals A value proposition for trough level-based anti-TNFα drug dosing

2019 ◽  
Vol 489 ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
V. Scharnhorst ◽  
E.M.H. Schmitz ◽  
D. van de Kerkhof ◽  
L.J.J. Derijks ◽  
M.A.C. Broeren
Keyword(s):  
Trough Level ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Drug Dosing ◽  
A Value

London’s local Olympic legacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Duignan
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Business Failure ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Small Business Sustainability

PurposeLondon’s Candidature bid projected an irresistible legacy of lasting benefits for host communities and small businesses. Yet, local post-Games perspectives paint a contrasted picture – one of becoming displaced. This paper aims to draw on event legacy, specifically in relation to rising rents, threats to small business sustainability and impact on place development by empirically examining London’s localembryonic legaciesforming across one ex-hosting Olympic community: Central Greenwich.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 43 interviews with local businesses (specifically, small retailers and hospitality businesses), local authorities, London-centric and national project actors and policymakers underpin analysis, supported by official London 2012 archival, documentary and media reports, were conducted to add texture and triangulate primary and secondary data sources.FindingsJuxtaposing ex ante projections vs emerging ex post realities, this paper reveals a local legacy of small business failure fuelled by rising commercial rents and a wider indifference for protecting diverse urban high streets. Embroiled in a struggle to survive, and barely recognised as a key stakeholder and contributor to legacy, small businesses have and continue to become succeeded by a new business demographic in town: monochromatic global and national chains. Typifying the pervasive shift toward clone town spaces, this article argues that corporate colonisation displaces independent businesses, serves to homogenise town centres, dilute place-based cultural offer and simultaneously stunts access to a positive local development legacy. This paper argues that such processes lead to the production of urban blandscapes that may hamper destination competitiveness.Originality/valueExamining event legacy, specifically local legacies forming across ex-host Olympic communities, is a latent, under-researched but vital and critical aspect of scholarship. Most event legacy analysis focuses on longer-term issues for residents, yet little research focuses on both local placed-based development challenges and small business sustainability and survival post-Games. More specifically, little research examines the potential relationship between event-led gentrification, associated rising rents and aforementioned clone town problematic. Revealing and amplifying the idiosyncratic local challenges generated through an in-depth empirically driven triangulation of key local business, policy, governmental and non-governmental perspectives, is a central contribution of this article missing from extant literatures. This paper considers different ways those responsible for event legacy, place managers and developers can combat such aforementioned post-Games challenges.

scholarly journals Small Business Policy and Support

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Brooksbank
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Business Policy

A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR SMALL BUSINESS POLICY

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Berney ◽  
Ed Owens
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Business Policy

Evaluating the Prince's Trust's Young People's Business Start-up Programme, 1994–1999

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Stratis Koutsoukos ◽  
John Shutt ◽  
John Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Uk

The authors were the principals in the evaluation of the Prince's Trust's Young People's Business Start-up Programme, 1994–1999, as it operated nationally in the UK and in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. In this paper they report the methodologies used in the evaluation and the key findings. They then use their reflections on both the research process and its outcomes to comment on small business policy.

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