Globalisation and international integration can yield efficiency gains through the promotion of competition and trade in markets for internationally traded goods. At the firm level, exposure to competitive pressures has created a necessity for firms to operate as close as possible to the...

The food industry in each country is a strategic industry that ensures its food security, environmentally friendly social aspects, safe products, health of the population and its economic security, as it is continuously operating even at times of economic and political crises. Therefore, the...

The concept of a knowledge-based economy is a relatively new topic, but it does not mean that the previous economies did not use knowledge. For many years, knowledge formed the basis of any economy, it was a factor that set the pace of each of them, but just nit is making a significant impact on...

This paper has the specific objective of determining main factors of capacity utilization in the food and beverage manufacturing industry which are likely to be positively affected by fiscal incentives. Data used are from the manufacturing industry comprehensive survey carried out by the...

This paper aims to provide empirical researchers with an overview of the methodological issues that arise when estimating total factor productivity at the establishment level, as well as of the existing (parametric and semiparametric) techniques designed to overcome them. Apart from the...

This work examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and dynamic productivity change of each input employed and investment undertaken in the United States food and beverage manufacturing industry. We compute input- and investment-specific dynamic Luenberger...