In the New Economy, the network is considered as more important than the firm itself. In this paper the focus is on chain networks which include vertical networks among chain members, horizontal networks with peers, and networking with third parties. Networks have an important role in the...

As national economies have integrated through removal of trade barriers, the potential for offshoringproduction was quickly recognized as a strategy to enhance firm performance. At thesame time, labor market reforms opened the door for outsourcing of labor services to specialistfirms that supply...

This paper presents a dynamic theory of structural change in which functional changedriven by technological change and transactional change open opportunity for change inscale and scope of enterprises. Implementation of change in scale and scope ofenterprises is constrained by initial state...

In Flanders glasshouse vegetables andornamental plants are typically produced at familybusinesses. At this type of businesses the objectives andlong-term firm developments are influenced by the socalled ‘family-firm life cycle’. In many cases the firmshows a life cycle that corresponds with...

In order to meet the changing needs and preferences of consumers it will be importantfor Belgian glasshouse growers to change from a production-driven to a customer-drivenstrategy. More than ever, use of information and product innovation become critical factors in the changing competitive...

This study estimates the technical, allocative and economic efficiency obtained from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm level survey data to a sample of 100 poultry farmers in Bangladesh for the year 2007. The results from the DEA approach show that there is substantial...

The objective of this paper is to construct a framework for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level. Based on a literature review, partially conflicting economic-environmental trade-off paradigms are structured and five necessary conditions for...

Market liberalization at the domestic level and at the boarder level has been a dominant feature of market reforms in most developing countries including Bangladesh during the last two decades. A pre-requisite for producers and consumers to benefit from this new and changing market environment...

Within the framework of the nitrate directive, member states have the possibility to apply forderogation, i.e. increasing fertilization standards under certain conditions. Several EU regionshave made use of this possibility but all in a different way. In 2009, 6 different derogationpolicies were...

The paper uses the case of Flemish investment support to make a quantitative analysis of pillarII support based on micro-economic data from the FADN and the administrative dataset of theinvestment support fund. A dynamic panel estimation quantifies the effect of support for settingupyoung...