Business strategies: development, implementation, monitoring
SWOT-based strategic planning in agricultural companies for comprehensive sustainability, corporate social responsibility, implementation and monitoring of strategies using industry-specific instruments (Balanced Scorecard)
Management accounting: book-keeping, cost accounting, capital expenditure budgeting
Book-keeping, analysis and planning for companies on the basis of the three annual financial statements and key indicators (or indicator systems), direct costing, full costing and activity-based costing, static and dynamic capital expenditure budgeting methods
Effects of the agri-political and agri-legal setting on businesses
Optimal legal forms and business development for changing agri-political and agri-legal conditions, capital expenditure steps involved in farm handovers, potential of and instruments for cross-farm cooperation
Expanding value chains into regional networks
Combining the value chains of a variety of regional stakeholders into production, collaboration and sales networks in and outside the region (‘nested markets’)