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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Determinants of Food Industry Performance – Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey
Autores: | Furtan,   William Hartley; Sauer,   Johannes.
Data: | 2008-05-05
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Value added; Innovation; Organizational type; Agribusiness; Q13; O31; O33.
Resumo: | This paper empirically investigates the determinants of firms’ performance in the agri-food sector by using recent survey data for Denmark. Treating sales per employee as a proxy for value addition we estimate several bootstrapped regression models to draw conclusions on the marginal effects of potential performance determinants such as the form and nature of ownership, stage of the food chain and commodity sector, new product development, staff quality, firms’ competitive stance, and elements of firms’ strategy. To draw robust inferences we apply, besides the ordinary heteroscedasticity corrected Tobit ML-estimator, a nonparametric least absolute deviations estimator (LAD/CLAD) based on a quantile regression procedure. The results indicate that we cannot reject the hypothesis of no influence of dominant orientation on value added.  Rather, firms’ focus on human capital, stage and commodity sector better explains their value addition. We can reject the hypothesis that regional networks have no influence on value added. Differences in location, emphasis on human capital and the negative influence of outsourcing on value added all provide supporting evidence. We reject the hypothesis of no influence of FDI, and moreover propose that FDI has targeted the domestic Danish market as a source of value added.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

30090

http://purl.umn.edu/6422

Relação:

American Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida

Selected Paper

454424

Formato: | 28