The idea of this study is to follow general economic fluctuations and try to foresee how confident fishery industry
is towards the near future and simultaneously indicate the relative development in the near past. A trend-and-confidence
indicator describing the overall economic trend and expectations of enterprises was calculated from the...
Fishermen, who initially harvest the resource, usually content themselves with landing and selling the raw
material. It is the food processing industry, wholesalers, distributors and retailers that create added value from the fish by
transforming it or/and differentiating different types or quality grades.
Focussing upon Brittany, Normandy and the Channel...
Managers play an important role in strategic decision making. One important objective of strategic leadership is
that of linking the organization to its environment. In this paper we ask the question: To what degree are managers' external
network contingent on organizational design, i.e. the internal characteristics of the organization? With...
A glaring hole exists between academic marketing literature and anecdotal observations on the effect of
interpersonal ties for interfirm exchange. Academic marketing literature, economic perspective in particular, either frowns on
or belittles the impact of interpersonal ties for interfirm exchange. In contrast, we often hear street-smart people say that it...
In this paper, we use an interactionist perspective to study inter-industry variation in buying behavior. We argue that individual purchasers’ preferences for suppliers depend on three broad classes of variables: (1) The structure of the value chain stage in which the firm competes, (2) the firm’s competitive strategy and (3)...
The Italian seafood chain is experiencing strong evolutionary pressures. Domestic operators, especially at catch
level suffer from weak organisational structures and poor logistics, fragmentation and lack of specialisation. Based on an
analysis of the sector's strengths and weaknesses, the authors present three recommendations for bringing about the necessary
changes. Whereas...