Based on farm panel data we empirically investigate the determinants of Polish farm households 'flexibility from 1994 … to 2001. We focus on scale flexibility (adjustment in production volume) and scope flexibility (adjustment in product mix … prevailing expectations, in particular we found that farms where a generational succession took place displayed less flexibility …

Flexibility can be considered as a crucial factor of competitive advantage, especially under conditions of dynamically … changing environments. Based on the classical microeconomic definition of flexibility, as introduced by Stigler, and some … recent concepts developed in the production economics, this article proposes a primal flexibility measure for multi …

This paper investigates the flexibility of the Polish farming sector during a transition period. Flexibility is … considered to be a farm’s ability to change output by sustaining average costs. We argue that flexibility is a crucial factor in … farmers’ competitive advantage, especially under dynamically changing environmental conditions. We propose a flexibility …