期刊名称:Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
印刷版ISSN:1899-5241
电子版ISSN:1899-5772
出版年度:2019
卷号:53
期号:3
页码:203-214
DOI:10.17306/J.JARD.2019.01118
出版社:Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu
摘要:Economic activity is embedded in the reality of
a given region and its market structure. This regularity also
materializes in agri-food markets. Location plays an important
role in building competitive advantage because geographic
proximity, resulting from location decisions of entities operating
within an industry, is a significant condition for selected
market activities. The accumulation of entities in the form of
clusters may generate positive effects. Relations are established
within and across geographic borders, and can result in
the development of markets and their participants. The main
purpose of this paper is to determine the premises for identifying
clusters in the Polish organic food market which can
provide a framework for building relations resulting in further
development. The empirical investigation is based on 2016
data obtained from the Polish Agricultural and Food Quality
Inspection and the Eurostat database, and employs descriptive
statistics presented from various geographical perspectives
(both national and regional). The concentrations of entities
in the organic food market are estimated and assessed taking
regional perspectives into consideration. Premises indicating
the possibility for cluster development in the Polish organic
food market were identified. Acknowledging such structural
features should enable relations to be established that could
translate into further development of the entities and of the
entire market.