The Mediterranean area is the core of an increasing exchange of goods and people. A distinctive feature of present trends in international relationship is the importance of factors that are beyond the mere exchange of goods. In particular, foreign investment, the creation international...

Celem badań była konceptualizacja zrównoważonego rolnictwa w Polsce. Przedstawiono koncepcję zrównoważonego rozwoju, wskazując jego różne wymiary. Punktem wyjścia do rozważań było wykazanie zależności między zrównoważonym rozwojem i zrównoważonym rolnictwem. Zastosowano...

The farm in Poland is quite a special form of entrepreneurship, which on one hand is still treated as a gray area (due to the current law), on the other hand, however, subject to the same market rules as other economic activity. The fact of the functioning of agritourism linkages farm is a...

Cooperative and corporate farms have retained an important role for agricultural production in many transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Despite this importance, their ownership structure and particularly the ownership's effect on their investment activity vital for efficient...

Investment models typically explain only a small share of the total investmentvariation within or between firms. A reason for this may be that those models do not explicitlydifferentiate between the decision to invest and the decision about the level of investment. Inthis paper, a two-steps...

This paper addresses the issue of the role of agriculture in multifunctional rural development in Italy. Italy is characterised by high heterogeneity in terms of territorial composition, rural areas and the role of agriculture. The paper reviews the main multifunctionality concerns in Italy, by...

The world economy is experiencing dramatic changes.In this context, the concept of bioeconomy (or bio-economy, or bio-based economy) has emerged as a key strategy to match human needs while facing resource efficiency requirements, based on the sustainable exploitation of biological resources....

In the paper we examine the issue of food systems in which farms participate in multiple networks that, for their part, tend also to be members of networks of networks. The issue is addressed through a descriptive analysis of the fruit sector in Emilia-Romagna (Italy). The farms in the area tend...

This article focuses on the role of middlemen in determining the returns to generic advertising in a competitive industry where supply is uncontrolled, the price of marketing inputs is endogenous, and retail markets are interrelated through consumer preferences. Theoretical analysis suggests...