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Since over the last twenty years the reduction of trade barriers, the increasing liberalisation, the advancement in ICT have determined a growth in the horizontal and vertical competition among firms in the chain. Therefore, today more than ever they are pressured to develop appropriate...
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The article shows the changes in labor productivity that have occurred in the past decade, such as in 2000-2010, in the Polish food industry and its various sectors, measured value of sold production per employee. Improving the labour productivity was a common phenomenon and affect all sectors...
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On the agricultural market, like any other market, there are transaction costs such as “discovering what the relevant prices are, the costs of negotiating and concluding a separate contract for each exchange transaction1”, and others. According to our research the average level of...
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The purpose of the paper is the assessment of implementation of Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) concept in Polish food industry in Czestochowa region. ECSR is an important part of the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The food industry has many impacts on the...
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the marketing management capabilities of SMEs producing traditional food … products, in order to analyse the market orientation of SMEs in the food industry. Following the theoretical approach of Market … sample, confirming the evidence found in economic literature concerning SMEs. Nevertheless, cluster analysis outlined a group …
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In the New Economy, the network is considered as more important than the firm itself. In this paper the focus is on chain networks which include vertical networks among chain members, horizontal networks with peers, and networking with third parties. Networks have an important role in the...
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The purpose of the paper is to explore how the perceived relationship quality is related to the innovation capacity in chains of the traditional food sector. Based on suggestions from theory and previous studies, empirical evidence is drawn from a survey of 90 traditional food chains including...
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In the New Economy, the network is considered as more important than the firm itself. In this paper the focus is on chain networks which include vertical networks among chain members, horizontal networks with peers, and networking with third parties. Networks have an important role in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693405
The purpose of the paper is to explore how the perceived relationship quality is related to the innovation capacity in chains of the traditional food sector. Based on suggestions from theory and previous studies, empirical evidence is drawn from a survey of 90 traditional food chains including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853579
Because loyal consumers are less likely to switch to competitors and because they are more tolerant toincreases in price than non-loyal consumers, one of the main aims of firms is the “generation” of loyal consumers.But what is consumer loyalty? The marketing literature emphasises that for...
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