Competitiveness and Advertising in Greek Food and Beverage Manufacturing Firms

Νόττα, Ουρανία; Vlachvei, Aspasia

doi:10.1142/9781848165106_0026

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“…Moreover, older firms enhance their reputation and position in the market (Coad, Segarra, & Teruel, 2016). Therefore, there is evidence of the direct effect of firm age on the improvement of the organizational performance (Argote, 1999), on innovative outcomes (Tripsas & Gavetti, 2000), and on profitability (Notta, Vlachvei, & Samathrakis, 2010). Moreover, firm age could affect sales growth because older firms might have experience advantages enabling them to sustain international growth (Autio, Sapienza, & Almeida, 2000).…”

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Impact of E-Commerce Sales on Profitability and Revenue. The Case of the Manufacturing Industry

Lorca

Andrés

García-Diez

2019

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E-commerce has grown significantly in recent years. Although the factors that contribute to the implementation of e-commerce have been studied in prior literature, little has been done about the impact that the introduction of e-commerce has on both profitability and revenue. This is important because, as Solow (1987) points out, the information technology expenditures do not always allow firms to achieve a better performance. For this purpose, the authors use the data from the Spanish Survey on Business Strategies (ESEE). The research covers an eight-year period (2008-2015). 2,544 Spanish companies belonging to the manufacturing sector were analysed. Results show that neither business-to-business (B2B) nor business-to-consumers (B2C) e-commerce seem to have influence on the revenue growth. Therefore, a substitution effect may exist between the sales by physical channels and e-commerce sales. However, the authors have found evidence that companies which adopt a high level of e-commerce (B2C and B2C simultaneously) immediately experience increase in their profitability. Moreover, if firms adopt only B2B or B2C the positive effects on profitability are achieved in the year subsequent to that of the measurement of the e-commerce status.

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Section: Control Variablesmentioning

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Impact of E-Commerce Sales on Profitability and Revenue. The Case of the Manufacturing Industry

Lorca

Andrés

García-Diez

2019

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“…It is worth stressing that, in Europe, the food sector has a significant role; the combined agricultural and food sector forms an important part of the EU economy, accounting for 15 million jobs (8.3% of total employment) and 4.4% of GDP (Moussis, 2013). In Greece, where the empirical work took place, the food sector constitutes 25% of the GNP and it is the leading sector amongst all industrial sectors in terms of GNP contribution (Notta et al, 2010). It is clear that the food sector, like many other sectors such as automotive (Nieuwenhuis et al, 2012), electronics and appliances (Kumar & Putnam, 2008), textile and apparel (Wu et al, 2012), has reached a juncture where customer and other stakeholder concerns about sustainability performance now need to become integrated with other dimensions of value when managing supply chains (Angell & Klassen, 1999).…”

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Firm size and sustainable performance in food supply chains: Insights from Greek SMEs

Bourlakis

Maglaras

Aktaş

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International Journal of Production Economics

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This paper analyses sustainable performance differences within the Greek food supply chain and provides numerous statistical comparisons of its key members (growers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers) with respect to firm size. In an attempt to fill a gap in the relevant literature, we examined micro, small and medium-sized firms against a set of sustainable performance measures and we employed survey research using a sample of 997 firms operating in the Greek food supply chain. Key informants evaluated their firms based on sustainable performance measures (consumption, flexibility, responsiveness, product quality and total supply chain performance). The results were analysed using ANOVA. The findings identify the Greek food supply chain members who over-perform or underperform in relation to size. These include small growers, wholesalers, retailers, medium-sized manufacturers and wholesalers, micro manufacturers and retailers. Specific reasons are provided for these sustainability performance differentials including the role of locality as well as the asset and resource intensity of some operations (e.g. manufacturing). Another key finding relates to small firms which are the top performers in terms of sustainability performance measures especially in the areas of flexibility and responsiveness. Members of this chain also underperform in the product conservation time measure, irrespective of size, and we highlight the urgent need for this to be addressed. Findings of this paper will prove useful for food SMEs and policymakers planning to introduce specific sustainability incentives related to firm size and to the food chain

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“…Similarly, Notta et al (2010) found that for the period 2002-2007, the competitiveness of the European Union member countries, for the food and beverage sectors, differs significantly from country to country and depends to a large extent on the geographical location of each of them.…”

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2021

Int. J. Bus. Financ. Manage. Res.

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The dairy industry is one of the most important sectors of the Greek food industry having great impact on the gross domestic product (GDP) and other economic sizes such as the turnover, the value added of the production and the number of the employees. It is characterized by a high degree of concentration and intense competition between the big enterprises and the small local enterprises of the dairy sector. The present study investigated the factors that determine the competitiveness and the selection of the strategy of the dairy industries using indicators such as profitability and market share. The results obtained show that the dairy firms undertake profit investments and use debt financing in order to be extended and acquire a bigger share of the market.

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Competitiveness and Advertising in Greek Food and Beverage Manufacturing Firms

Cited by 15 publications

References 27 publications

Impact of E-Commerce Sales on Profitability and Revenue. The Case of the Manufacturing Industry

Impact of E-Commerce Sales on Profitability and Revenue. The Case of the Manufacturing Industry

Firm size and sustainable performance in food supply chains: Insights from Greek SMEs

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