Nach 45 Jahren Zentralverwaltungswirtschaft setzte in der polnischen Ökonomie und Gesellschaft der Transformationsprozeß hin zur Marktwirtschaft ein. 1989/1990 entschied sich Polen als erstes Land Mittelosteuropas zu radikalen Reformen, die sowohl Maßnahmen zur makroökonomischen...

This paper addresses the various modes of access to production factors, such as capital, specific inputs and know-how, as reasons for the varied development of Romanian dairy supply chains and their respective actors (farmers, processors). The paper draws on results from an ongoing World Bank...

This paper investigates the different types of vertical coordination mechanism and the spread institutional arrangements (i.e. contracting) as well as identifies opportunities to expand innovative solutions that help to create and maintain the linkages among the famers and downstream businesses...

Abstract: The means by which fruit and vegetables growers are linked with the upstream partners in the supermarket supply chain are investigated in 15 semi-structured interviews with inter alia the managers of Croatia’s five major supermarket chains. Contrasting to existing literature we find...