Agricultural Economics, 2006 (vol. 52), issue 1

Globalisation and knowledge economy

V. Jeníček

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(1):1-6 | DOI: 10.17221/4990-AGRICECON  

The article stresses the importance of information in the contemporary globalised world. Quantitative technological changes, which influence substantially the world economy, have always been very significant in the history. There are characterized the changes of the production factors as labour, capital, land, information on the world level. Information and knowledge are the most important parts of capital at the present time, since they are the main source of wealth. Information is by its substance very specific as an absolutely non-tangible commodity, which acquires a tangible form only through its bearers (media containing information), eventually...

Knowledge in the business strategy context

I. Tichá, J. Hron

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(1):7-11 | DOI: 10.17221/4991-AGRICECON  

The paper builds on the resource-based approach to the firm and develops it further towards the knowledge-based approach by exploring the importance of knowledge in a modern firm. Various concepts explaining characteristics of knowledge are compared and contrasted in order to contribute to the current strategic management thinking and to stimulate adoption of the concepts of knowledge management in modern businesses. The paper draws from the literature review made within the project Information and Knowledge Support for Strategic Management financed by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

The evaluation of effects of the subsidy system on Slovak farms in different regions in the pre- and post-EU accession stage

P. Bielik, Z. Sojková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(1):12-22 | DOI: 10.17221/4992-AGRICECON  

The primary goal of our analysis is to evaluate the effects of changes in the Slovak agriculture subsidy system on the selected farms located in different production areas between the years 2003 and 2004. Our comparative analysis divides the farms into two groups: The first group represents all those farms that operate in good farming conditions i.e. primarily the land is more productive (PA). The second group of farms operates in less favorable farming conditions (LFA). The regions differ from each other in terms of geographical position, location, production and climatic conditions, as well as the quality of land. We analyzed data of 119 farms.

Slovak agricultural markets and farm income after the EU accession

G. Blaas, J. Varoščák

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(1):23-29 | DOI: 10.17221/4993-AGRICECON  

The paper is focusing on the analysis of some aspects of changes in the economic performance of the farm sector in Slovakia during the first period after the accession to the European Union, as measured by the Economic Account of Agriculture. Authors find that the growth of agricultural goods output was the main element of the improved income generation within the sector during the first year of the EU membership. This was induced by the growth of physical crop output and new subsidies to products. Price alignment played only a minor role in the income growth within the sector. Price increases were limited to some few livestock products. The scope...

Results of agricultural enterprises economy in 2004

F. Střeleček, J. Lososová, R. Zdeněk

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(1):31-44 | DOI: 10.17221/4994-AGRICECON  

The study has been elaborated on the basis of a continuous analysis of economic results of a selected sample of agricultural enterprises operating in different climatic and productional conditions. Long-term tendencies and their influencing factors are defined on the basis of this analysis. The goal of this study is to evaluate the influence of external conditions on the economy of agricultural enterprises and on their economic results and to analyze the influence of the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU on the change of economic conditions of agricultural enterprises. On the basis of this study, the authors measures which would intensify the...

Collective bargaining and industrial relations in agriculture - the case of Slovakia

S. Buchta

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(1):45-50 | DOI: 10.17221/4995-AGRICECON