Three general implications for chain management can be derived from my results: 1. Network-level and firm-level goals must be considered simultaneously within a collective strategy. The collective strategy should address not only the alignment of interests of individual network members but also...

Am 1. Mai 2004 sind - neben Malta und Zypern - acht mittel- und osteuropäische Länder der Europäischen Union (EU) beigetreten. Im Januar 2007 folgten Bulgarien und Rumänien. Mit dem Beitritt von insgesamt zwölf neuen Mitgliedstaaten haben die Disparitäten innerhalb der EU deutlich...

Forests are important resources for local livelihoods and the economy. Forest cover can be significantly affected by changes in institutional and political framework conditions such as induced by the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the war in Kosovo. This study analyzed the...

Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen mikroökonomischen Konzepten zur Analyse der Flexibilität und wendet diese Konzepte in einer empirischen Analyse des polnischen Agrarsektors an. Der Schwerpunkt des theoretischen Teils der Arbeit liegt in der Messung der...

Theoretical literature suggests that social capital, respectively the underlying social networks, facilitate access to otherwise lacking production factors such as financial resources. In addition, the manifestation of different dimensions of social capital is suggested to facilitate collective...

CONTENTS: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... I; ABOUT THE MACE PROJECT... III; PLENARY PRESENTATIONS ... 1; Applying an E-teaming approach in modern agribusiness education... 3, Elena G. Kashtanova, Elke M. Leeds; The missing link: Challenge to develop practicing smallholders as professionals and agripreneurs...

Subsistence agriculture is probably the least understood and the most neglected type of agriculture. In a globalised, market-driven world, it remains at the same time a myth and a marginal phenomenon. CONTENTS: Subsistence Agriculture in Development: Its Role in Processes of Structural Change;...