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has the effect of improving overall productivity by shifting the best practice technology frontier while at the same time … acknowledged in national policy as an important sector for future development. The aim of this paper is to measure the productivity … efficiency and productivity gains to the industry …
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This work examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and dynamic productivity change of … the association between CSR and productivity change has different signs and effects on specific inputs or investments. We … also find that only certain aspects of CSR participate in the association between CSR and dynamic productivity change and …
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from low to high productivity firms, which translates to an industry productivity growth. A similar firms' selection effect …, namely that an increase in import penetration is systematically positively related to productivity growth. The results are … robust to measurement issues in productivity, controlling for market size, country and sector heterogeneities, and for the …
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This paper seeks to answer the question about whether the investments made by Estonian food processing companies to meet the EU's strict hygiene and structural requirements have enhanced their competitiveness and opened up better export opportunities to the EU-15 market. Enhanced competitiveness...
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processes and improving the productivity. The speed, nature and scope of technological changes let us talk about the fourth …
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Purpose: The present study aims to investigate the primary tools and digitalisation applications used by agro-food firms in Greece. These factors encourage or discourage digitalisation and identify which policies are in place to ensure an effective digitalisation in the food sector....
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Product innovation, a decisive factor in modern economies, is usually analyzed from one point of view - that of the producers. A more realistic approach to the subject would add at least four dimensions to a consideration of the topic: the perspective of consumers and the cultural context within...
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Both the financial crisis of the first decade of the 21st century, as well as the deterioration of trade relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation were events that significantly affected the functioning of the largest listed companies on the food market: on the one hand,...
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This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer taste using a control function approach and...
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This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer taste using a control function approach and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494393