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| Hanf, Jon Henrich; Dautzenberg, Kirsti. |
| In order to meet with the obstacles of market saturation and the resulting cut-throat competition in the home countries of most of the top food retailers, they use the chance to participate in the increasing standard of living in Asia, South America and Central- and Eastern Europe. Thus, retail internationalization can be regarded as a growth strategy for top food retailers. However, opposite to manufacturers internationalization is for retailers still a new strategy so that globalization continues to accelerate. AT Kearney (2006) shows that since 2001 more than 50 different retailers have entered 90 new markets. In this context our the aim of our paper is threefold. First, using different theories of internationalization we want to work out the courses... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: CEEC; Consequences; Retail internationalization; Agribusiness; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6615 |
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| Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivcak, Jan; Drabik, Dusan. |
| In Western Europe, USA and other developed countries agriculture is dominated by small family farms. In Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) and Former Soviet Union (FSU) dual structure of farms exists. There are large corporate farms (CF) and small family farms (FF) in CEEC and FSU. Our paper shows that both CF and FF specialize in commodities in which they have comparative advantage. CF specialize in capital intensive products and in products with low labor monitoring. FF specialize in products with higher labor monitoring requirements. The implication of this paper is that farm structure determines in which products the country will be competitive on international markets. This is especially important for transition countries where high... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm structure; Production specialization; Transaction costs; CEEC; FSU; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8527 |
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