We overview the roles of production structure models in measuring fisheries’ productive performance to provide policy-relevant guidance for fishery managers and analysts. In particular, we summarize the literature on the representation and estimation of production structure models to construct...

The objective is to identify significant determinants of performance for food processing firms over the 1992 to 2003 time period, focusing particularly on the issue of family control. Variables measuring firm effects such as asset size, governance, income distribution, and risk are used to...

This paper examines productivity of a sample of grain marketing and farm supply cooperatives from 1990 to 1998. The cooperative industry’s productivity or growth was mainly due to improvement in technology rather than improvement in pure efficiency or scale. The cooperative...

Direct marketing strategies increasingly have been recognized as a viable business option in U.S. agriculture as they allow producers to receive a better price by selling products directly to consumers. The objective of this study is twofold. Using a national survey, we first estimated a...

The examination of competitiveness – thanks to its many definitions and the applied research methods – is a complex task, and this is especially true in the case of agricultural products. The competitiveness of Hungarian agricultural product has to this day been examined by several...

A 2014–2020 közötti költségvetési időszakban az európai uniós támogatási források és eszközök végleges változata még kérdéses. Ami biztos, hogy az Európai Unió versenyképességének fejlesztését célzó tízéves Lisszaboni Stratégia 2010-ben véget ért. Az Európa...

Die starke Abhängigkeit von exogen determinierten Zuständen der Welt (Wetter, Krankheiten, Schädlinge etc.) ist konstituierendes Element der meisten landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsprozesse. Während diese Zustandsabhängigkeit auf der einen Seite eine Unsicherheitssituation entstehen lässt,...