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022			_a0048-7333
024	8		_ahttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-7333(99)00096-7
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041			_aeng
100	1		_915929 _aWolf, S.A.
245	1	0	_aBetween data and decisions : _bthe organization of agricultural economic information systems
260			_aAmsterdam (Netherlands) : _bElsevier, _c2001.
500			_aPeer review
520			_aIn the current political economic environment there is pressure to reduce and reorient public agency involvement in agricultural economic research and information services. Efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of public investments and enhance sectoral coherence through exploitation of institutional complementarity are constrained by weak understanding of how economic information is produced, processed and circulated. In this paper, we locate the centers of analytic competence and analyze supply of agricultural economic advisory services through development of an information accounting framework. We focus on the relative contributions of public agencies, commercial firms, collective organizations, and informal networks in order to identify organizational structures and institutional arrangements of coordination in the agricultural economy. The observed division of labor in information systems reflects the heterogeneous distribution and strategic choices of actors with respect to internal analytic competencies. Decision makers in agricultural businesses are heavily dependent on the services of a diverse range of intermediaries who perform information translation and customization functions. These intermediaries rely heavily on largely, but not exclusively, publicly supplied data and information inputs. This strongly linear aspect of agricultural economic information systems is identified as a component subsystem within the larger and more highly interconnected system of innovation. The dominant role of public agencies in economic information systems suggests that they currently perform highly valuable coordinating functions in agriculture. While commercial and collective organizations make important contributions and could be mobilized to assume broader responsibility, there are likely to be limitations to substitutability based on the classic (but still fully relevant) problem of private underinvestment in information.
546			_aText in English
650		7	_94429 _aAgricultural economics _2AGROVOC
650		7	_916361 _aDecision support _2AGROVOC
650		7	_910618 _aInformation systems _2AGROVOC
650		7	_915055 _aPublic sector _2AGROVOC
650		7	_99142 _aResearch _2AGROVOC
700	1		_916362 _aJust, D.
700	1		_916363 _aZilberman, D.
773	0		_gv. 30, no. 1, p. 121-141 _tResearch Policy _x0048-7333 _dAmsterdam (Netherlands) : Elsevier, 2001.
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