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This work is a direct continuation of a previous work by the authors that dealt with construction of new coeffi cients of concentration by using Minkowski’s metric ρp(1 ≤ p ≤ ∞). The following work gives examples of applications of those metrics in agriculture, forestry, fi shing and hunting sectors. It also studies the pattern of changes of concentration of added value created in those sectors by...
The issue of professional activity of the elderly is currently the subject of intense debate. The projected decline in the population of young people makes it necessary to raise the level of professional involvement of the more mature part of the labour force. The increase in the economic activity of people aged 50+ is seen as an opportunity to preserve the continuity of economic growth. This paper...
Poland is the biggest apple producing country in the European Union. The highest apple production level in the world there are on the Grójec and Warka area. The aim of the publication is to present a typology of fruit farms in the region of Grójec and Warka. The study made use of: the survey method with using an interview, and Ward’s hierarchical clustering method. The study was conducted among 229...
In Poland, as early as in the pre-accession period to the European Union, the activities aiming at the creation of conditions for implementation of the principles of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which assumed supporting of agricultural production with direct payments and match-funding, had already been undertaken. In order to realize that task, the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of...
Perspectives for competitive growth are put in the core of the re-industrialization policy of the European Union for the next program period, and respectively are key issue for the Bulgarian industrial policy. Re-industrialization of the Bulgarian economy is possible in terms of support for competitive industries at present, but also to support industries that are at the bottom of competitiveness...
The purpose of the research, the results of which are presented in this paper, was to show the significance, systems and hierarchy of values, as well as the relation of values with the ethnocentric attitudes of consumers. Among the most important values for consumers are: family, health and physical fitness. The ethnocentric attitudes of the surveyed consumers were correlated with the values they...
During the transformation, after 1989 year Poland has developed more slowly than countries of the European Union in terms of economic and technological progress. With transformation from a centrally planned economy to a free market, the rate of development in our country increased significantly. In the literature disparities in access and ability to use of information technologies between inhabitants...
The purpose of this article is to assess the changes in proclaimed paradigms regarding development of the agricultural sector in the EU with particular focus on barriers to these changes. The theoretical part highlights the types of changes in the public policies, the main models of paradigm developments and the impact of institutional factors, including structures of policy networks on their changes...
The aim of the study was to describe the implementation of socially responsible business actions addressed to employees in five areas. The two hypothesis has been assumed: 1. The analyzed company acts in social responsibly way towards the employees shaping their quality of work life; 2. Social responsible actions aimed to employees are infl uencing their quality of life and are important factor of...
The aim of this paper is to assess the level of economic development and foreign relations of the countries forming the economic group Mercosur. Numerous economic indicators are used for the purpose of research and international comparisons. Most important are gross domestic product (GDP), national income, unemployment rate, inflation rate, foreign trade’s and investments’ share in GDP. Other measures,...
The development of the economics theory of value migration is the main goal of this paper. The required advances of understanding of this phenomenon call for clarification and distinction of related conceptions. Thus, this paper explains and compares the notions of value migration, capital migration, and a novel term, introduced in this paper – capital commitments’ migration – in order to provide...
This article aims to contribute to the discussion about the potential for the implementation of consumer neuroscience into marketing research. This article highlights three areas of consumer neuroscience: methods used by consumer neuroscience, the findings and their interpretations and the ethical aspects. The article has a partly descriptive character as the research area of neuroeconomics or consumer...
Nowadays consumers tend to exchange information and collaborate to satisfy their needs in more and more effective ways. In consequence products are prepared and offered basing on customers’ involvement and replacing traditional B2C paradigm. The growing popularity of that approach is possible mainly because of technological changes as well as changes within societies – their evolution towards post...
In their article, the authors present the essence of sustainable consumption and the level of awareness among Polish consumers. A particular attention is paid to collaborative consumption as one of possible ways of implementation the idea of sustainable consumption. They made an attempt to characterise collaborative consumption and its manifestations in Poles’ behaviours. They paid attention to some...
Due to the complexity of the needs of the business tourist that determine the character of the offered product, networking is an inherent part of the business tourism sector. Organizations enter multiple networks of relations in order to gain access to knowledge, which is important in creating innovation in tourism. The article aims to show the role of business networks in developing new products...
The preparation for international exchange consists of examining marketing mix factors and a value-based approach to customer needs. International exchange has forms ranging from casual export, agency agreements, partnerships, licensing, joint ventures, franchising to wholly owned subsidiaries. There are several ways in which an enterprise can invest directly in a foreign market. The foreign market...
The article describes the activities and specificity of so-called CSA groups (Community Supported Agriculture) as one of the forms of the observable trend related to the formation of different types of informal, mutual social initiatives. Certainly such activities can be categorized as sustainable consumption. The article presents the results of research conducted on CSA groups operating in Poland...
The publication addresses the issue and the mechanism of remuneration of the labour factor in agriculture. An analytical approach with empirical examples was used, the reasoning is carried out in the microeconomic convention. Basing on analytical formulas the relationships between (a) proportion of food in consumer’s expenditure, (b) supply and demand for factors of production and the prices thereof,...
In the paper an attempt of assessment of equipment with some appliances and facilities of environmental protection in villages was made. The analysis was conducted taking into account division of country territory into voivodeships using methods of multi- -dimensional comparative analysis. The final result of the study is voivodeships ranking and dividing voivodeships into three groups: of a high,...
The wine market in EU had changed, and in general, wine consumption decreased. New trend can be however observed in terms of production and consumption of organic wines. The aim of the article is to analyse the wine market in EU, regarding organic products and to evaluate the social significance of the growing popularity of organic wines. The survey was conducted basing on the analysis of data on...
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