Quantifying the effects of sow-herd management information systems on farmers' decision making using experimental economics

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 821-829

  Verstegen, Jos A A M ^a   Sonnemans, Joep ^b   Huirne, Ruud B M ^a   Dijkhuizen, Aalt A ^a   Cox, James C ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Agric Economics Research Institute ^*

Author keywords

Individual decision making experiment; Markov decision programming; Pig farming; Value of management information systems

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LIVESTOCK FARMING;

EID: 0032317214     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244066     Document Type: Article

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