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Big Data in Smart Farming – A review

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In this paper, the authors present a review of the state-of-the-art of Big Data applications in Smart Farming and identify the related socio-economic challenges to be addressed.
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This article is published in Agricultural Systems.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1477 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Big data & Supply chain.

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Assessing spatial variability of selected soil properties in Upper Kabete Campus coffee farm, University of Nairobi, Kenya

TL;DR: In this article , the spatial variability of selected soil parameters as a smart agricultural technology guide to precise fertilizer application is evaluated in a farm designated as Field 3 which is under Arabica coffee within a bigger Soil Mapping Unit (SMU) for a more detailed soil observation at a scale of 1:5000.
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From collection to integration: Non-parametric Statistical Matching between primary and secondary farm data

TL;DR: An example of MiSM data integration between primary and secondary farm data on agricultural holdings in the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) and the main issues addressed, the lessons learned and the use in a research field characterised by critical data shortage are discussed.
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The social dilemma of big data: Donating personal data to promote social welfare

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors found that individuals are less willing to donate their data to the private industry than to academia or the government, and they are not sensitive to whether the data are processed by a human-supervised or a self-learning smart assistant.
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Competitive advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance

M.E. Ponter
TL;DR: Porter's concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities", or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage as discussed by the authors, has become an essential part of international business thinking, taking strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities.
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

TL;DR: Porter's concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities", or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage as mentioned in this paper, has become an essential part of international business thinking, taking strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities.
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Process Innovation: Reengineering Work Through Information Technology

TL;DR: In this article, Davenport provides numerous examples of firms that have succeeded or failed in combining business change and technology initiatives and highlights the roles of new organizational structures and human resource programs in developing process innovation.
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The Mechanisms of Governance

TL;DR: The Mechanisms of Governance as discussed by the authors is an important work in the field of transaction cost economics, a branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated.
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The mechanisms of governance

TL;DR: The Mechanisms of Governance as discussed by the authors is an important work in the field of transaction cost economics, a branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated.
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