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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | DETERMINANTS OF FOOD INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE –  SURVEY DATA AND REGRESSIONS FOR DENMARK
Autores: | Furtan,   William Hartley; Sauer,   Johannes.
Data: | 2008-03-30
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Value added; Innovation; Organizational type; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q13; O31; O33.
Resumo: | This  paper  investigates  empirically  the  determinants  of  firms’  performance  in  the  agrifood  sector by using recent survey data for Denmark. Treating sales per employee as a proxy for  value  added  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  reject  the  hypothesis  that  regional  networks  have  no  influence  on  value  added.  Location in Århus, 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: | http://purl.umn.edu/36851
Relação: | Agricultural Economics Society&gt;82nd Annual Conference, March 31-April 2,  2008, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK
Formato: | 22