Economic Efficiency in the Tunisian Olive Oil Sector

Abstract

This study aims to assess the economic efficiency of Tunisian olive oil firms in order to identify the organizational and technological variables that are directly associated with greater efficiency. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and fuzzy sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method were used to achieve this. We find the managing director′s education level and information and communication technologies (ICT) training, the longevity of the company in inverse relationship with efficiency, the company′s presence on and use of virtual social networks, and the outsourcing of ICT management in combination have significant explanatory power in the companies that display greater economic efficiency.

The Regional Efficiency in the Use of European Agricultural Funds in Spain: Growth and Employment Analyses

“…The result of these investigations has made it possible to determine how the non-parametric DEA methodology is a research instrument widely used today, and that it is frequently applied to various sectors of the economy [20]. In the specific field of the agrarian economy, the contributions of Karimov [21], Niavis et al [22], Jalilov et al [23], Arru et al [24], Sintori, Liontakis, and Tzouramani [25], Mengui, Oh, and Lee [26], Havlíček et al [27], Gołaś et al [28], Fernández-Uclés et al [29], Işgın et al [30], and Bahta, Jordaan, and Sabastain [31] were identified.…”

“…The applied DEA revealed that farms could reduce their inputs by almost one-quarter without reducing their outputs. The study of Fernández-Uclés et al [29] related to the economic efficiency of Tunisian olive oil firms also focussed the efficiency analysis through DEA methodology. The main findings underlined that the factors that showed greater economic efficiency are those related greatly to information and communication technologies (ICT) factors.…”

Phân tích hiệu quả kinh tế trong sản xuất táo của nông hộ theo mô hình nhà lưới tại huyện Ninh Phước, tỉnh Ninh Thuận

“…Minh hoạ cách tính TE và AE Có nhiều nghiên cứu về hiệu quả kinh tế trong sản xuất nông nghiệp của các tác giả trong và ngoài nước như cây khóm (N. Q. Nguyen & Mai, 2015), cây cam (T. T. T. Nguyen et al, 2020), cây ô liu (Fernández-Uclés et al, 2020), cây lúa (T. T. Nguyen, Huynh, Vo, & Tran, 2018), cây sen (T. V. Nguyen & Pham, 2014), cây xoài (Emmanuel & John, 2017), cây dâu và cây cà chua (Jung & Yang, 2016), cây táo, cây lê và cây nho (Lee, Yun, Kim, & Yang, 2015), dưa hấu (Doan & Do, 2016), cây ca cao (Danso-Abbeam, Baiyegunhi, & Ojo, 2020), cây táo (Ma, Renwick, Yuan, & Ratna, 2018), cà chua bi (Yang, Zhu, & Wang, 2020), cây cam sành (D. T. A. Tran, Quan, & Thach, 2017).…”

Copper/Nickel-Decorated Olive Pit Biochar: One Pot Solid State Synthesis for Environmental Remediation

“…In 2017, olive stone powders were used as biosourced cellulosic supports of silver and gold nanoparticles, and the final olive pit-supported nanocatalysts facilitated the degradation of para-nitrophenol [17]. Herein, we take the advantage of this widely available agrowaste from Tunisia (a country in the top five producers of olive oil by volume [18]) to make nanocatalyst-decorated biochar. Instead of the noble metals, silver and gold, we instead targeted copper-nickel bimetallic nanocatalysts.…”