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Does Market Orientation in Small-Scale farms pay off? A study of Innovation behaviour in Spanish agriculture

López-Mosquera, Natalia; Álvarez-Coque, José María … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

The paper underlines the importance of adopting a ‘market-orientation’ strategic approach in order to improve the performance of the firms, previously influenced by the ‘adoption of innovations’ of interest to the agricultural firms in two Spanish regions. The methodology selected has...

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Positional Advantage within Small Farms: Evidence from Illinois

Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

As the economic viability of small farms continues to be an issue facing policy makers and economists alike, a market orientation may be a valuable resource producers can develop as they compete in a marketplace dominated by larger firms. Marketing and strategy scholars have long established the...

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Designing market-oriented beta-glucan enriched functional foods through conjoint analysis: evidence of differing consumer preferences

Bogue, Joe; Troy, Amy-jane - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

New product development (NPD) has a significant role to play in the rapidly evolving food supply chain where firms wish to utilise innovative novel ingredients to meet consumers’ increased needs for healthier foods. It is a knowledge intensive process where the generation of new ideas and...

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Traceability and the new CAP

Maraveyas, Napoleon N.; Doukas, Yannis El. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was strongly criticized for the food safety crises of the 1990s which included Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), dioxin, foot and mouth disease and swine fever to name a few. Even though the first rules on food safety date from the very early days of...

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Market Driven Entrepreneurship: The Convergence of Market Orientation and the Resource Based View

Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

The dramatically changing marketing structure for agricultural products is forcing agricultural producers to become more entrepreneurial, but what does this mean? How do agricultural producers produce sustainable competitive advantage within a commodity market characterised by homogeneous...

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Profitability prediction model for dairy farms using the random forest method

Yli-Heikkilä, Maria; Tauriainen, Jukka - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

predict the profitability ratio of dairy farms based on financial and production related variables. The predictive model was … implemented as a web service to enable farmers to calculate the profitability of their business. Hereby, farmers can better assess …

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THE ECONOMICS OF MILK PRODUCTION IN THE CZECH TRANSITION AGRICULTURE

Kopecek, Petr; Kopp, Ondrej; Schmidtova, Barbora - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

The paper examines the development of the Czech transition agriculture through profitability without supports (R-S) and … profitability with supports (R+S) of the dairy breeding, resp. milk production on the period 2002 – 2011. For this particular branch … from the pure national (Czech) agrarian policy into the European CAP. There was proved that profitability R+S in the pre …

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FARM STRUCTURE AND COMPETITIVENESS IN AGRICULTURE

Toth, Orsolya - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

competitiveness are significant concepts which could be measured by the profitability of the agricultural holdings. It is very …

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The Competitiveness of the Greek Μeat Ρrocessing Εnterprises

Konstantinidis, Christos - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

structure of the entire industry. Competitiveness will be measured following traditional approaches where profitability and … correlation between profitability and market share. Moreover the way which other factors affect profitability and market share is …

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Food chains and value system: the case of potato, fruit, and cheese

Bertazzoli, Aldo; Fiorini, A.; Ghelfi, Rino; Rivaroli, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

The aim of the paper is to analyse patterns of value system sharing along food chains, so to explore the agro-food enterprises capacity to be competitive and sustainable. The research focused on three food chains: potato, fruit, and Grana cheese of Emilia Romagna region. The paper adopts the...

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