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An economic evaluation of the effects of business strategy of agro-food industry clusters on export competitiveness in Serbian transition economy
Vanka, Gajo M.; Heijman, Wim J.M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2013
This article gathered and displayed data on export strategies of agro-food products and the performance of some clusters and associations inside industries in Serbian region. As part of this article, producers in clusters were described in detail in agro&food production, their...
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Influences on consumer attitudes towards CSR in agribusiness
Mueller, Henrike; Theuvsen, Ludwig - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA; … - 2014
and the food industry. A number of food scandals have exacerbated consumers’ critical perceptions of the agribusiness …’ attitudes towards the CSR commitment of agribusiness companies. The results do not confirm Carroll’s distinction between four … for agribusiness firms designing and implementing their CSR strategies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878945
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Transparency in Supply Chains: Is Trust a Limiting Factor?
Frentrup, Mechthild; Theuvsen, Ludwig - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2006
Transparency has gained much relevance in food chains. This paper summarizes the determinants of transparency and points out that transparency in the sense of effective information exchange needs trust as a mediator in order to become a powerful tool in supply chain management. In addition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005454090
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Shaping Agribusiness and its Impact on the Competitive Environment of Agricultural Enterprises
Becvarova, Vera - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007
The paper deals with the key issues of contemporary food system development and their economic content related to the position of agricultural enterprises. It explains, that the problem faced by the whole Europe and thus also by the Czech Republic, i.e. how to compete successfully on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005493832
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Auctioning Conservation Contracts and Evaluating the Risk Attitudes of Farmers: Economic Experiments in Japan
Sasaki, Hiroki; Fujie, Takeshi; Kawasaki, Kentaro; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Agri-environmental programs in Japan have generally been promoted through the provision of fixed payments for certain environment-friendly farming and management practices. However, the auctioning of agrienvironmental contracts is a noteworthy alternative for the furtherance of such programs....
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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs
Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the labor economics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In the context of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on health status are willing to work for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201379
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Positiv externality of honey production
Vanyi Arvane, Georgina; Csapo, Zsolt; Karpati, Laszlo - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Bee-keeping and honey production has a long history in Hungary. Honey is an important and healthy food of people and it can be consumed without any human processing. The honey production has important role, too. Some researchers say that if honey bee will extinct the humanity in the world would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201387
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Enhancing the integration of agri-food supply chains: theoretical issues and practical challenges in the UK malting barley supply chain
Leat, Philip M.K.; Revoredo-Giha, Cesar - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues that may affect the integration (i.e., the relationships) between the different actors that comprise a supply chain. Whist the theoretical part of the paper can be referred to any supply chain, the empirical part is focused on the UK barley to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804803
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Alternative producer-consumer relationships: the AgroGeoTrace project and the speciality products virtual roads
Chiodo, Emilio; Salvioni, Cristina - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
The AgroGeoTrace (AGT) project makes use of Geographical Information Systems and multichannel information technologies to facilitate the access of final consumers to local food speciality products. The project builds a prototype of an informative system designed, first, to help consumers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804814
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The importance of network goals for strategic chain management
Gagalyuk, Taras; Hanf, Jon Henrich - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
Nowadays food products are increasingly produced in supply chain networks that involve numerous firms. Due to their pyramidal-hierarchical structure, such networks possess a focal company that coordinates the network. The managerial task of the focal company is to work out collective strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804819