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The study attempts to identify the socioeconomic determinants of propensity to save and saving rate in Polish households. The research was done on the individual data of the Social Diagnosis by means of the method of logistic regression The results of logistic regression analysis confi rmed the fact that above all, the signifi cant factors affecting the propensity to save in households are as follows:...
The problem of obesity relates to adults as well as children and teenagers. In the last decade it has become a crucial public health problem all over the world. It has been acknowledged by various organisations and bodies globally, nationally, and regionally, such as for example: World Health Organisation, European Union Commission, national governments, National Health Service, and other non-governmental...
The main objective of this study is to present the impact of the Erasmus student exchange programme on the university image building. The fi rst part of the paper, describes forms of promotion which are most commonly used by universities, namely: advertising, sponsorship, personal selling, online promotion and engagement marketing. The impact of the Erasmus programme on the university image building...
The paper contains an analysis of the changes in the share of food products in the structure of Poland’s trade turnover with Ukraine, Belarus and Russia taking into account registered and unregistered turnover. Also, trends related to the share of unregistered sector in the total value of turnover of food products are presented. By considering registered and unregistered sectors together, it was concluded...
The main goal of this work was to evaluate the influence of the advertising of dairy products on consumer behaviour on the specific market. The objective was completed based on the primary data from a research carried out on a sample of 550 interviewees. The study revealed that examined sample differed in sensitivity to advertising messages depending on the level of consumption. The effectiveness...
The article presents the outcomes of survey research conducted among meat industry companies located in the Wielkopolska Voivodeship. The aim of the research was to diagnose the innovativeness in these companies and to identify its determinants and particularly – the significance of network interconnections. It was concluded on the basis of the research that the majority of companies did not participate...
This paper presents the EU support for the competitiveness of the Polish agri- -food sector in the years 2002–2013. Authors singled out 15 measures of SAPARD, SPOROL, RDP programmes, which directly and indirectly affected the achievement of the objective of this analysis. Authors evaluated budget support across the country and in particular provinces (voivodships). Agri-food entities and general business...
The article aims to present the size and pace of development of organic production and organic food market in Europe. The biggest areas of agricultural land utilized for organic farming are in the countries, where the organic food market is the biggest, i.e. in the richest countries of Western Europe. However, meeting the demand for organic food based on those countries’ own production is not possible...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the development of the SME sector in Poland, with particular emphasis on regions belonging to the Eastern Poland. The period of analysis covers the years 2001–2011. Throughout this period we note arise in the number of active SMEs in all voivodships. However, the density ratio of SMEs in the eastern voivodships is very low compared to other regions. Beneficial seem...
According to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, the basic unit of local government in the country is a commune (Constitution of the Republic of Poland 1997). Since 27 May 1990 the term “commune” is used to refer to every basic unit of local government. In the relevant literature one can find the idea that “...the primary task of local government is to provide adequate living conditions to...
The basic research material comprised empirical data on household budgets conducted by GUS (Central Statistical Offi ce), between 2005 and 2012. The changes in Polish demand for fruit and their products were analyzed, excluding bananas and citruses as they are not native to Polish fruit production. The changes in the consumption volume of fruit and their products in the households as well as in the...
Development relates to such research areas as local development and activity of local governments in obtaining external sources of financing for development in rural communes. The article includes theoretical considerations and the results of empirical studies conducted in the general area of all rural communes of the province of Lublin (171 units). The choice of the region was intentional, as it...
Trust is a basic coordination mechanism in interfirm relations while lack of trust is perceived as a cooperation barrier. However, building trust across cultural or national borders can be difficult because of cultural differences between partners. This study presents the results of the research on 278 Polish exporters and importers cooperating with partners from China and Germany and proves that...
The article assesses the financial situation of branches of the food industry in Poland in 2005 and 2010 and provides a linear order and classifi cation of the branches by means of synthetic development measure, which was constructed using the TOPSIS method, basing on unpublished statistics of the Central Statistical Office. As results from the research, the financial situation of individual branches...
Innovativeness is crucial in building competitive advantage of firms. Enterprises are facing many innovation barriers that distort innovation performance. The aim of the paper is to assess the influence of innovation barriers on the innovation performance as well as international competitiveness of firms from Polish food processing industry. The analysis is conducted on the representative sample of...
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