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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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