Agricultural Economics, 2002 (vol. 48), issue 2

Micro-economic analysis of households restructuring in the pre-accession period to the EU

P. Bielik, J. Pokrivčák, V. Jančíková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(2):49-54 | DOI: 10.17221/5287-AGRICECON  

Transformation process and restructuring of the existing enterprises started in the Slovak Republic in 1990, what influenced all companies alike as well as rural households. Business companies and private farms were established. Private activity in agricultural sector became a dominant source of income for many rural households. In 2000, there were 21 thousands private farms registered in Slovakia with the average size of 10.4 hectares. There is also significant group of unregistered farms that get part of their income from agriculture.

Labour productivity as a factor of sustainable economic development of the CR agriculture

L. Bervidová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(2):55-60 | DOI: 10.17221/5288-AGRICECON  

A basic presumption of sustainable economic development of every branch is an efficient use of production factors. As a decisive production factor, it is possible to consider labour which actives other production. In such a way, labour creates sources for reproduction and improvement of other production factors; i.e. it creates sources for sustainable economic development. Efficiency of labour use as a production factor is generally evaluated by the level of labour productivity. To express its level, various indicators are used. Using the indicator of gross agricultural production per one worker, labour productivity grows, even with the decrease of...

External and internal entropy assessment on farms in relation to their competitiveness

L. Rolínek, M. Doktorová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(2):61-64 | DOI: 10.17221/5289-AGRICECON  

Internal and external entropy are indicators of evaluation of the success of the firm management. The evaluation of the file of the chosen agricultural firms shows, that the level of internal and external entropy is not too high for the future dynamics and development. Competitiveness of the evaluated firms can be influenced especially by problematic level of their interior social situation (it means social subsystem measured with the help of the internal entropy) that is connected with a not very efficient management of the human resources.

Formalised risk identification and evaluation models application in the conditions of agricultural enterprises

P. Římovská

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(2):65-75 | DOI: 10.17221/5290-AGRICECON  

Recently we can mention in the CR a step by step enterprise number increase in the area of production, transport services, services and financial organisations, which practically apply internal departments of controlling or audit into their managerial structures. That is why it is required to dedicate a wider publication space to the information on the role and principles of managerial instruments, which are provided by controlling and Internal Audit for business administration and financial management. The goal is to ensure a higher quality of preparation or response on the still emerging forms of our enterprises co-operation with foreign business...

Globalisation and concentration in the Czech agro-food sector

T. Doucha

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(2):76-80 | DOI: 10.17221/5291-AGRICECON  

The processes of globalisation and concentration have been also penetrating into the Czech agro-food sector and market. Utilising information from foreign sources and developed countries, the paper tries to present a complex view on the Czech situation from the structural and institutional aspects. Based on limited Czech information sources, the market structure in the individual links of the food chains is presented, together with the hypothesis about the sequence of the market power in the present Czech agro-food sector: input suppliers and retailers - farmers - processors. The paper also implies possibilities of the state to suppress negative effects...

Globalisation and poverty

Ľ. Bartová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(2):81-86 | DOI: 10.17221/5292-AGRICECON  

Transitional process in Central and Eastern European countries has been affected by globalisation. Evaluation of poverty and inequality become an integral part of economic thinking a few years ago. The importance of this topic is documented in the 2000 World Bank Report. In comparison with living standards of developing countries (especially Africa, South Asia, partially Latin America), Slovakia does not belong to the group of countries with the highest absolute poverty and according to the World Bank Report, the Slovak Republic is one of the countries with the lowest level of inequality. The paper presents an assessment of poverty and inequality in...

Globalisation and regionalisation

V. Jeníček

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(2):87-92 | DOI: 10.17221/5293-AGRICECON  

What regards the vision of the future relationship of the global and regional liberalisation, two variants are offered. According to the first, multilateralism will go on perpetually around the present trajectory and gradually will, supported by the processes of internationalisation and interdependence, accelerated by the condensing net of trans-national corporations and their activities, suppress regionalism. According to the second, regionalism will, closely connected to multilateralism, spread territorially into the shape of several macro-regions as a transitive stage to the unified liberalised world economy. In both cases, it regards of course...

Social and cultural logic of regionalism

S. Hubík

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(2):93-96 | DOI: 10.17221/5294-AGRICECON  

Research into the globalisation processes leads to establishing the set of concepts with the relative heuristic, methodological, and theoretical effectiveness as well as consequent practical effectiveness. Yet, a simple analysis shows this set of concepts as dependent on certain political programmes and projects. Scientific research is not a prirori limited by any other language - except its own, i.e. scientific language. To accept the language of non-scientific discourse means (mostly) to accept the non-scientific logic, too. Scientific establishment of region, community or similar social unit is a matter of logic different from the logic of political...