TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF SERBIAN DAIRY PROCESSING INDUSTRY
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https://doi.org/10.5937/ekoPolj1802569PKeywords:
dairy, processors, effciency, DEA, SerbiaAbstract
Serbian dairy processing sector is passing through signifcant structural changes in last couple decades. Concentration, vertical coordination and integration become a main characteristics. The main goal of the paper is to explore technical effciency of 91 Serbian dairy processors in sample by non-parametric method Data envelopment analysis. Data were collected from financial reports of dairy companies in 2015. All dairy companies were divided in 4 groups: micro, small, middle and big. The empirical results indicate that 16.5% of companies were technically effcient. This study shows that efficient companies exist across all size groups, and while small companies suffer from input ineffciency and insufficient size of business, the bigger companies are over invested.
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4. Banker, R., Charnes, A., Cooper, W. (1984). Some models for estimating technical and scale ineffciencies in data envelopment analysis. Management science, 30(9), 1078-1092. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.30.9.1078
5. Baran, J. (2013). Effciency of the production scale of polish dairy companies based on data envelopment analysis. Oeconomia 12 (2), 5–13. ISSN 1644- 0757
6. Barnes, A. P. (2006). Does multi-functionality affect technical effciency? A non-parametric analysis of the Scottish dairy industry. Journal of Environmental Management, 80, 287-294. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.09.020
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8. Business register agency, (2017). Yearly fnancial reports, Available at: http://pretraga2.apr.gov.rs/pretragaObveznikaFI/
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10. Charnes, R., Cooper, W., Rhodes, E. (1978). Measuring the effciency of decision making units. European Journal of Operational Research 2, 429-444. DOI: 10.1016/0377-2217(78)90138-8
11. Coelli, T. (1996). A guide to DEAP Version 2.1. A Data Envelopment Analysis Computer Program, Centre for Effciency and Productivity Analysis, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Armidale, Australia. ISSN 1327-435X
12. Coelli, T., J., Rao, P., D., S., ODonnell, C., J., Battese, G., E. (2005). An introduction to effciency and productivity analysis, Springer, USA. ISBN-10: 0-387-24265-1
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15. DHaese, M., Speelman, S., Alary, V., Tillard, E., & DHaese, L. (2009). Effciency in milk production on Reunion Island: Dealing with land scarcity. Journal of Dairy Science, 92, 3676-3683. DOI: 10.3168/jds.2008-1874
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28-30 May 2014, page 325-339 ISBN-978-8686-6161-115-5 Available at: http://popispoljoprivrede.stat.rs/?page_id=5173
28. Popovic, R., Panic D. (2015). Innovative strategies of SMEs food industry in Serbia. Proceedings of the workshop at AgriMBA network Congress "Smart Agribusiness for Society of Tomorrow", Porec, Croatia, 17 and 18 June 2015, FAO. Available at: http://www.fao.org/fleadmin/user_upload/Europe/documents/Publications/AFC_EECA_en.pdf
29. Popovic, R., Radovanov, B. (2010). Price transmission in Serbian dairy chain. Economics of agriculture, 57 (4), 543-554. ISSN 0352-3462
30. Sarkis, J. (2007). Preparing your data for DEA. Modelling data irregularities and structural complexities in Data envelopment analysis. Springer, New York, USA.
31. Silva, E., Arzubi, A., Berbel, J. (2004). An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in Azores Dairy Farms, New Medit 3, 39-43. DOI: 10.1007/978- 94-007-5739-4-5
32. Soboh, R., Lansink, A., Dijk, G. (2014). Effciency of European dairy processing frms. Wageningen Journal of live sciences, 70-71, 53-59.
33. Špička, J. (2015). The Effciency Improvement of Central European Corporate Milk Processors in 2008 – 2013, Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics 8 (4), 175-188.
34. Vlontzos, G., Theodoridis, A. (2013). Effciency and Productivity Change in the Greek Dairy Industry, Agricultural Economics Review 14 (2), 14-28. ISSN: 1109-2580
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2018-06-27
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Popović, R., & Panić, D. (2018). TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF SERBIAN DAIRY PROCESSING INDUSTRY. Ekonomika Poljoprivrede, 65(2), 569–581. https://doi.org/10.5937/ekoPolj1802569P
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