Export performance and innovation activities in the agrifood industry: a recursive estimation approach /доклад на 10 конгрессе ЕААЕ, Exploring Diversity in the European Agri-Food System, Zaragoza, Spain, 28-31 August 2002
Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2003
2002
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Agrifood firms operate in a more global, saturated and competitive market than
other manufacturing firms, and they have smaller size. These firms certainly need
to
define appropriate strategies related to accessing the international market and to
investing in innovative activities. This two decisions are related to firms size
because as
Krugman states international trade is not only explained by differences in technology
between countries but also by firms’ desire to extend their sales in foreign
markets to
take advantage of the economies of scales. Therefore, it seems to exist a simultaneous
relation between firm size, exports and innovative activities.
The aim of this paper is to analyse agrifood firms’ decisions on these three
strategies: export behaviour, innovative activities and firm’s size in comparison
to other
manufacturing firms using some modification from the simultaneous model defined by
Entorf and Pohlmeier. The study is focused on the Spanish manufactured firms taking
special attention to the agri-food ones. Data come from a National Survey (“Encuesta
de
Estrategias Empresariales”) carried out by the “Fundación Empresa
Pública”) from
1990.
Results indicate that agri-food manufacturing firms decision process related to
their size, export share and innovative activities is not a simultaneous process.
Moreover, some differences with the rest of manufactured firms have been detected,
In
particular, agri-food firms have lower export shares, lower size and lower innovation
intensity than Spanish firms in other manufacturing sectors. Spanish firms decision
process on strategic variables (size, export share and innovation) is characterized
by a
recursive decision process where firms firstly decide export intensity, secondly,
they
decide their size or total sales depending on the previous decision and, finally,
they
decide their innovative intensity depending on the last two.
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