Summary The main aim of this paper is to investigate the performances of coffee processors
The aim of this paper is the analysis of indicators of corporate responsibility in road freight transport, with special emphasis on freight transport and delivery to Fast Moving Consumers Goods (FMCG) retailers and final consumer. The main task is to rank the importance of corporate responsibility indicators in freight transport from the perspective of the management of transport companies, as well as management of retail stores. In this context, empirical research was conducted on a sample of 124 managers of transport enterprises and 181 managers of FMCG retailers in Serbia. The results showed that the impact of indicators does not depend on the region, transport company and retail store. The indicators show a statistically significant dependence on FMCG type that is being transported. The conducted analysis and achieved results are important in practice as they show to the management of transport companies which indicators should be developed, so that customers (retailers), and thus the users of final products are satisfied. Disadvantages of the existing research and suggestions for future studies are provided in the paper.
Foreign trade is one of the most important ways of including the national economy in international and regional trade flows. Regular exports and imports are considered classic foreign trade transactions, and their volume and structure is one of the basic indicators of the level of economic development. The goal of the foreign trade policy of every national economy is to achieve the highest possible degree of liberalization of its market, primarily through the removal and reduction of trade barriers. However, with the proclamation of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, national economies have introduced various restrictions on movement, both for citizens and for businesses and their outlets. The decline in economic activity has led to the largest decline in global trade. However, international trade began to recover quickly after the initial stagnation, so it is growing today. Exports of certain countries exceeded the levels before the outbreak of the pandemic. This trend is expected to continue, although it must be noted that developed countries have adapted more easily to the current situation, while developing countries are lagging behind. For decades, the foreign trade of the Republic of Serbia has recorded a negative balance, as well as an unfavorable structure of exchange. The aim of this paper is to point out the basic trends and structure of foreign trade transactions of the Republic of Serbia before and after the pandemic, and the need to increase the share of higher processing and added value products in order to improve the country's competitive position.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of profitability for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the wholesale and retail sector in the Republic of Serbia. The wholesale and retail sector is a very important sector for Serbian economy, and also one of the most profitable sectors. The research of determinants of profitability includes two phases. First, the differences between the profitability of SMEs and large enterprises were conducted using the Student t-test. Second, the panel data estimation techniques were used to detect determinants of firm profitability. The profitability measure is based on the return on assets, and the determinants of profitability were defined as follows: size, leverage, liquidity, tangibility, investment, sales growth and lagged profitability. The data was collected from the financial statement of enterprises. For this purpose, 9,005 observations of 1,801 SMEs and 1,605 observations of 321 large trade companies over the period of 2010-2014 were included. The results indicate that SMEs achieve statistically significant better profitability than large wholesale and retail companies. The findings indicate that leverage, liquidity, sales growth and lagged profitability positively influence the profitability of SMEs. Furthermore, the results show an inverse relationship between the size and tangibility on one side and profitability on the other side.
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