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| Bangsund, Dean A.; Olson, Frayne E.; Leistritz, F. Larry. |
| The purpose of this study was to measure the economic contribution of the soybean industry to the North Dakota economy. Expenditures and returns from soybean production, grain handling, and transportation were estimated to calculate the direct economic impacts from soybean activities. Secondary economic impacts were estimated using the North Dakota Input- Output Model. Soybean production in North Dakota has trended upward over the past three decades. Increases in acreage were relatively modest in the 1980s, but by the mid 1990s acreage was beginning to rapidly expand. In 1990, North Dakota had about 500,000 acres of soybeans. By 2000, acreage had increased to 1.9 million acres. By 2009, soybean acreage in the state was approaching 4 million acres. Direct... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Soybeans; North Dakota; Economic impact; Crop Production/Industries; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100396 |
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| Olson, Frayne E.. |
| Cooperatives have been used as examples of successful collective action activities. However, member free riding within cooperatives and other collective action groups continues to be a challenge. The board of directors and management of United Producers Inc. confronted the member free riding issue when creating a restructuring plan after their Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The plan integrated three strategies which have been proposed to mitigate free riding in large groups; coercion, a federated organizational structure, and selective incentives. This article compares Mancur Olson’s theoretical framework for addressing free riding behavior with United Producers Inc. restructuring plan. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56936 |
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| Bhuyan, Sanjib; Olson, Frayne E.. |
| Focus group discussions were conducted in April 1997 in two rural North Dakota counties to examine whether the problem of inadequate or missing goods and services in those areas can be solved by using the cooperative business approach. An earlier study (Bhuyan, 1996a) has shown that many rural North Dakota communities lack essential goods and services, such as supermarket or grocery stores, clothing stores, drug stores, bank/credit facilities, and ambulance or fire-services. Focus group participants corroborated those earlier findings at the local level. It was also found that the rural residents were not fully aware of the potential role of cooperatives in the non-agricultural sectors as a means to provide inadequate or missing goods and services.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Non-agricultural cooperatives; Rural development strategies; Focus group; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23298 |
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