Competitiveness of Agriculture in New Member States of the European Union

Nowak, Anna; Różańska-Boczula, Monika; Krukowski, Artur

doi:10.35808/ersj/1752

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“…No studies, however, have been carried out regarding the position of agriculture in the bioeconomy sector. Research concerning agriculture more frequently focuses on its diversity in the European Union [25,26], productivity [27,28], sustainability level [29,30] and competitiveness [31,32]. In contrast, few works refer to its potential [33][34][35] and role in implementing the concept of bioeconomy [11,36,37].…”

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Significance of Agriculture for Bioeconomy in the Member States of the European Union

2021

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Bioeconomy is a response of the European Union and its member states to global challenges such as ensuring food security, mandatory sustainable management of natural resources, mitigating climate change and reducing dependency on non-renewable resources. One of the sectors playing an important role in the development of bioeconomy is agriculture, which accounts for the largest part of biomass used as a raw material for producing bioproducts. This paper is an attempt to answer the following questions: What is the essence and significance of the bioeconomy sector in the EU? How significant is agriculture to the bioeconomy sector? What is the potential and competitiveness of agriculture in EU countries? Data used in surveys is sourced from the Data-Modelling platform of agro-economics research and covers the years 2008–2017. The position of agriculture in the bioeconomy was determined based on measures such as level of employment and gross value added (GVA), turnover, while its competitiveness was assessed based on labour productivity. The results of surveys showed that more than 50% of all bioeconomy workers were employed in agriculture. The sector produced nearly 30% GVA and had a more than 18% share in bioeconomy turnover. Member states of the European Union featured diverse agricultural potential. At the same time, the productivity of agriculture was one of the lowest in the bioeconomy sector. The importance of agriculture stems not only from its food function, but also from the production of biomass. However, its social function is equally important, and in the face of escalating environmental problems the function connected with reducing external costs and producing environmental public goods has become complementary.

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Significance of Agriculture for Bioeconomy in the Member States of the European Union

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“…Nowak et al [5] identified a clear difference in agri-food trade and its competitiveness between new and old EU member states regarding the agricultural sector's competitiveness. The group of countries with a highly competitive agriculture consisted of "old" EU countries, while all "new" member states of the European Union were classified as countries with a low agricultural competitiveness level.…”

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“…Besides this, the question of competitiveness is crucial. Nowak et al [5] emphasize that competitiveness is currently a key issue in understanding the processes on micro-, meso-, and macroeconomic levels.…”

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“…Besides to the mentioned literature, a number of recent research papers emphasize the examination of agri-food export and EU trade competitiveness, highlighting the main determinants of selected European countries with different viewpoints [5,[27][28][29][30], including the geographical/climatical aspects of different areas [31][32][33][34][35][36][37], or peculiarities of selected agri-food markets [38][39][40][41][42][43]. These, and other related publications, offer a lot of ground to cover for authors of future research.…”

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Czech Comparative Advantage in Agricultural Trade with Regard to EU-27: Main Developmental Trends and Peculiarities

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The paper, based on RCA, LFI and GL indices, and logistic regression analysis, allowed us to track the dynamics of the comparative advantage/disadvantage of the Czech Republic in individual commodity aggregates in relation to individual EU partners, and to comprehend the role of the main production factors. The only production factor with a statistically significant effect is capital. Trade with countries richly endowed with agricultural land and capital, in most cases, appeared not favorable for the Czech Republic in terms of having a comparative advantage over them, if measured with LFI index. The values of the GL index disclosed that trade with these countries is mostly of an inter-industry character. The analysis revealed the following top-3 mostly competitive Czech aggregates: S3-08 (animal feed stuff), S3-06 (sugar and sugar preparations), along with S3-04 (cereals and cereal preparations). Some aggregates appeared to not have any comparative advantage: S3-01 (meat, meat preparations), S3-05 (vegetables and fruits), and S3-41 (animal oils and fats). Speaking of developmental trends, from 2000 to 2019 the Czech Republic has managed to improve its position in agri-food trade within the EU-27 by 43.81% if measured with LFI, and by 51.63% if measured with RCA. These positive changes also appeared to be statistically significant.

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“…At present, an enterprise's competitiveness means its ability to supply the appropriate products or services with adequate quality at the right time and place so that customer needs are satisfied more efficiently and effectively than they are by other enterprises (Kraszewska and Pujer, 2017), an enterprise's ability to discover changes inside and in its environment by continuing to improve its market competitiveness criteria as compared to its rivals (Nemethné, 2010), the quality that enables an entrepreneur to successfully compete against other market players (Suchanek et al, 2011, p. 120), and an enterprise's ability to design, produce, and sell better products and services than those offered by its competitors with regard to price and other qualitative criteria (Ambastha and Momaya, 2004, p. 47). Competitiveness is ambiguous, multi-level, and multi-dimensional, it is a complex phenomenon (Nowak et al, 2020;Giap et al, 2017) that contributes to the decomposition and definition of the elements of the enterprise competitiveness system. Stankiewicz (2005, p. 89) distinguished four subsystems of competitiveness:…”

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Competition Instruments Applied by Large Enterprises during the Crisis Triggered by the COVID-19 Pandemic

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2021

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Purpose: This paper is intended to examine the effects of the crisis that was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the selection of instruments of competition used by enterprises. A research hypothesis (H1) is advanced: at the time of the crisis that was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises have employed new key instruments of competition in order to attain a better competitive standing in the market. The concept and nature of competitiveness are discussed, and instruments of competition are detailed as a dimension of competitiveness. Design/Methodology/Approach: The theoretical section of the paper is based on a comprehensive review of leading specialist literature. The hypothesis is verified by means of exploratory factor analysis, which serves to detect an optimal group of main factors and explicate correlations between observable variables. The number of factors is determined using the Cattell's scree criterion and Kaiser criterion. Findings: The paper contains the results for a group of 253 large Polish enterprises. A factorbased model of competition instruments that have been used by enterprises at the time of the crisis that was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is constructed by using exploratory factor analysis. Three factors are defined: the product, quality, and distribution that are currently being applied by enterprises. Distribution is identified as a new key instrument of competition, while the utilisation of Internet channels allows for maintaining one's competitive status in the market. Practical Implications: The results may be taken advantage of by entrepreneurs. They constitute indications for selecting competition instruments during the crises. Originality/Value: The paper contains the authors' original research into a representative group of large enterprises that can be generalised to the entire population assuming a level of confidence of α = 95% and maximum error of β = 6%.

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Competitiveness of Agriculture in New Member States of the European Union

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Significance of Agriculture for Bioeconomy in the Member States of the European Union

Significance of Agriculture for Bioeconomy in the Member States of the European Union

Czech Comparative Advantage in Agricultural Trade with Regard to EU-27: Main Developmental Trends and Peculiarities

Competition Instruments Applied by Large Enterprises during the Crisis Triggered by the COVID-19 Pandemic

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