The food industry is one of the low technology sectors. This does not change the fact that it has the largest share of industrial production in Poland. This in turn follows from the fact that the national economy consists for the largest part of low technology production which is typical for...

The paper presents an analysis of innovativeness in Polish food processing industry enterprises before and after the Polish integration into the European Union. Data published by the Central Statistical Office were used. The analysis proved that the integration into the European Union and the...

In Poland, the concept of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is still not very popular, especially in micro, small and medium sized enterprises from various industries, including the agribusiness industry. This article presents the basic issues related with the relationship between the...

Innovations may determine the development of Polish food processing industry in the future. Each enterprise, in order to develop successfully and effectively, needs innovation, i.e. new products, new technology processes, new organizational systems and marketing changes. So, the paper presents...

The role of endogenous factors of rural areas development has been discussed. The concept of cultural heritage, especially its spiritual and material character, has been referred to. The startup role of regions’ social capital and its use in the transition process has been underlined. The need...

This paper analyses the competitiveness of fruit and vegetable producers. Research was carried out as an attempt to identify the variables that determine companies’ ability to achieve a competitive advantage. The results of qualitative research are presented in the paper. Interdependence of...

Price linkages between the Polish and foreign markets of grains and pork were investigated in the paper. The analysis indicates a decrease in price differences between the Polish and the EU markets and their increase between the Polish and the US markets. Causality tests and VAR models indicate...

The paper presents changes in the structure of population's economic activity following a division into urban and rural population. The period of investigation covers years 1993-2009. The research deals with synthetic measures of the intensity of structure transformation as well as with average...

The aim of this research is to verify the hypothesis of the weak form efficiency of capital market. The research is conducted for the WIG-Spożywczy index. In the paper, Wald-Wolfowitz’s test, Quenouille’s test of autocorrelation coefficients, the test of joint autocorrelation with Ljung-...

Changes of land prices in years 2004 through 2009 are presented. The aim of this article was to study the relations between the location of farm and the land price. The scope of the study includes 16 voivodeships of Poland. The study applies to farms with area of 50 hectare and more. Moran...