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Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...

The objective of the paper is to simulate the corporate value of Champagne makers by takinginto account the Champagne market evolution. These measurements are conducted by linkingfinancial debt, performance and valuation to a vertical coordination model of production-consumptionwithin a cobweb...

In an increasingly globalising market, innovation is an important strategic tool for micro, small,and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to achieve competitive advantage (Avermaete et al.,2004a; Gellynck et al., 2007; Murphy, 2002). Innovation can be defined as an ongoing processof learning, searching and...

This study investigates the strategic behaviour of food industry firms. Its two goals are to:(i) characterise strategies being employed; and(ii) identify distinct approaches to information-sharingData from an interview-format survey of Danish food industry firms are used to characterisestrategy at...

result, enterprises in the agribusiness sector are increasingly exposed to the public eye (Jansen/Vellema: 2004). The perception of consumers and other stakeholders - which are according toFreeman “any group or individual who can affect, or is affected by, the achievement of the...