@article{Mugera:8140,
      recid = {8140},
      author = {Mugera, Amin W. and Bitsch, Vera},
      title = {Managing Labor on Dairy Farms: A Resource-Based  Perspective with Evidence from Case Studies},
      journal = {International Food and Agribusiness Management Review},
      address = {2005},
      number = {1030-2016-82605},
      pages = {20},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {Labor management practices in agriculture are a marginally  and fragmentally researched subject with limited  theoretical background in agricultural economics. The  resource-based theory is proposed as a framework to analyze  labor management on farms and its application discussed  with evidence of six case studies. In-depth interviews with  farm managers, supervisors, and non-supervisory employees  provide data to illustrate the provisions of the  resource-based theory. The theory requires heterogeneity,  immobility, value, rareness, inimitability, and  non-substitutability for resources to contribute to  sustained competitive advantage. The human resource system  of the case farms satisfies these conditions and hence  qualifies as a source of competitive advantage.


* Funding  for this project was provided in part by the North Central  Risk Management Education Center. The authors wish to  express their gratitude to the farmers and their employees  who volunteered to participate in the study and openly  shared their experiences.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/8140},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.8140},
}