scholarly journals Organic Food in the Diet of Residents of the Visegrad Group (V4) Countries—Reasons for and Barriers to Its Purchasing

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 4351
Author(s):  
Andrzej Soroka ◽  
Anna Katarzyna Mazurek-Kusiak ◽  
Joanna Trafialek
Keyword(s):  
Organic Food ◽  
Genetically Modified Food ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Health Value ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Group Member ◽  
Visegrad Group

This study aimed to determine the differences in the frequency of, reasons for, and barriers to purchasing organic food among the inhabitants of the Visegrád Group member states. The selection of the countries for the study was dictated by the fact that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe play the role of a niche market in the European organic food market. This research employed the method of a diagnostic survey and the discriminant function. A chi-squared test, ANOVA, and Fisher’s Post Hoc LSD test were also used to present differences in individual groups. This research shows that respondents from Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia were guided by similar behaviors regarding the purchase of organic food. However, the attitudes of the respondents slightly differed between countries. In the case of the reasons for choosing organic food, the most important thing was that it is non-genetically modified food, especially for Polish consumers. The following were also mentioned: lack of chemical compounds (Slovaks and Czechs), high health value of such food (Czechs and Slovaks), and excellent taste (Hungarians). The most critical barriers against purchasing are the price (Poles and Hungarians), difficult access (Poles and Hungarians), and the short expiry time of such products (Slovaks).

The Role of Private Labels in the Organic Food Market

2019 ◽  
pp. 347-375
Author(s):  
Miguel Llorens ◽  
Sonia Carcelén
Keyword(s):  
Organic Food ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Food Product ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Store Brand ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Food Market

The organic food market has become one of the most rapidly growing sectors in developed economies around the world in the last decade, but it has not grown at the same pace in all the countries. The review of literature clearly indicates that the main motivations of the Spanish consumer to buy organic food are Health, Taste and Quality; also reveals that the main barriers are related to Price and Availability. The organic Store Brand appears as an opportunity for retailers to overcome those barriers, the price gap and the lack of availability. This study investigates the role of Store Brands in the development of the organic food product category. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the current status in the Spanish distribution channels and review some PL strategies for the retailers to develop the category in different marketing areas such as branding, labelling, pricing, merchandising and promotion.

The Role of Private Labels in the Organic Food Market

2016 ◽  
pp. 359-387
Author(s):  
Miguel Llorens ◽  
Sonia Carcelén
Keyword(s):  
Organic Food ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Food Product ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Store Brand ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Food Market

The organic food market has become one of the most rapidly growing sectors in developed economies around the world in the last decade, but it has not grown at the same pace in all the countries. The review of literature clearly indicates that the main motivations of the Spanish consumer to buy organic food are Health, Taste and Quality; also reveals that the main barriers are related to Price and Availability. The organic Store Brand appears as an opportunity for retailers to overcome those barriers, the price gap and the lack of availability. This study investigates the role of Store Brands in the development of the organic food product category. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the current status in the Spanish distribution channels and review some PL strategies for the retailers to develop the category in different marketing areas such as branding, labelling, pricing, merchandising and promotion.

scholarly journals The Defining Role of Environmental Self-Identity among Consumption Values and Behavioral Intention to Consume Organic Food

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 1106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haroon Qasim ◽  
Liang Yan ◽  
Rui Guo ◽  
Amer Saeed ◽  
Badar Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Consumption Values ◽  
Functional Value ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Emotional Value

Consumption values and self-identity are the essential antecedents of consumer sustainable behavior. By integrating the theory of consumption values and self-identity approach, this research explores the relationship among consumption values (functional, social, conditional, epistemic and emotional), environmental self-identity and the behavioral intention to consume organic food. The data was collected from 406 organic food consumers through a structured questionnaire in Lahore (Pakistan). Using the PLS-SEM approach, we find that conditional value, emotional value, epistemic value, and functional value quality have a significant positive influence on consumers’ behavioral intention to consume organic food. We further find that environmental self-identity significantly mediates the structural relationship between consumption values and the behavioral intention to consume organic food. Our results imply that the interventions targeting environmental self-identity are a promising way to promote sustainable consumption behavior. Our findings also have important implications for the development of the organic food market based on consumption values and self-identities.

scholarly journals Assesment of Trends in the Share of Expenditure on Services and Food in the Visegrad Group Member States

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 977-996
Author(s):  
Mateusz Jankiewicz ◽  
Michał Bernard Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Household Consumption ◽  
Estimation Of Parameters ◽  
Limit Values ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Systematic Improvement ◽  
Food Expenditure ◽  
Group Member ◽  
Visegrad Group

The subject of the article concerns changes in the structure of consumption in the Visegrad countries in the years 1996-2016. The focused was on expenditure on services and food expenditure of households in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The systematic improvement of the socio-economic situation and institutional changes in the Visegrad Group countries resulted in an increase in expenditure on services and food. This contributed to changes in the structure of household consumption, where the share of expenditure on services in final expenditure increased in the examined period in each of the countries studied, and the share of expenditure on food systematically decreased. The main research objective of the article is to identify trends in the share of household expenditure on selected types of goods in their final expenditure. The different trends in the shaping of expenditure shares for goods considered in the article result from their different nature, where services are a higher order good, while food is a good satisfying basic existential needs of man. The study also attempted to determine the limit values of the share of expenditure on services and the share of expenditure on food in the structure of household consumption in selected countries. The limit values were determined for both types of goods on the basis of estimation of parameters of the Tӧrnquist function of the first type. The limit values established in the study should be treated as the saturation level for the share of goods that the countries are able to achieve with the current trends in their socio-economic development.

scholarly journals Integration of Monetary and Fiscal Policy of the Countries of the Visegrad Group

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Stanislav Kappel ◽  
Jan Janků
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Monetary And Fiscal Policy ◽  
Visegrad Group

Abstract The aim of this paper is to evaluate mutual interaction of monetary and fiscal policies in the countries of the Visegrad group, i.e. in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. The relationship of monetary and fiscal policy - their coordination, cooperation or mutual antagonism - are basic determinants of successful implementation for economic policy of the state. Fiscal and monetary policies usually have different aims, and some conflict situations may arise in practical economic and political decision- making. Each policy has to make its decision with regard to the other one. Methodical approaches of this contribution are based on the game theory, which deals with the analysis of a wide range of decision situations with more participants (players) and it is primarily focused on the conflict situations. This game-theoretical approach is responsible for creating the theoretical model which is then dealt with in the empirical analysis. We find a distinctly stabilizing role of monetary policy and relatively problematic stabilizing role of fiscal policy in the analyzed countries. The dominant role of monetary policy is statistically confirmed in the case of the Czech Republic and Hungary.

scholarly journals Quo vadis, V4? What is the potential of the Czech Republic to promote its interests within the framework of the V4?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (56) ◽  
pp. 255-279
Author(s):  
Zbyněk Dubský ◽  
Kateřina Kočí
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Central European ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
Positive Input ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
Regional Grouping ◽  
The Eu

The original purpose of the Visegrad Group (VG or V4 – which includes Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) was primarily to support its member states’ accession to the EU and NATO, which it successfully achieved. However, the views on the current cooperation of four Central European countries differ. Some researchers believe that the V4 has transformed since 2004 into a viable project which has become even an inspirational model of cooperation for other regional groupings. According to them, and contrary to doubts about the continuation of the V4 project, membership of the EU has given the V4 a new impulse, and its agenda has been expanded into new areas of cooperation which included EU affairs. Therefore, the V4 operates now as a distinct regional grouping within the EU (i.e. positive input regarding their commitment in several Council presidencies). Others, however, suggest that V4 cooperation seems to be labelled as a defensive project, a coalition within the EU, which is against something (recently the prominent topics have revolved around migration issues) and that it could lead to the marginalisation of the group and thus reduce its importance at the EU level. While discussing the future role of the V4, the article will focus on the Czech Republic, and its potential to promote its interests within the framework of the V4, especially in the context of its current presidency (from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020).

scholarly journals The Visegrád Group as a Vehicle for Promoting National Interests in the European Union: The Case of the Czech Republic

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Neuman
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Eu Foreign Policy ◽  
Council Presidency ◽  
Group Member ◽  
Visegrad Group

Abstract This contribution asks whether sub-regional integration projects such as the Visegrád Group may be understood as mechanisms for pursuing one Group member’s national interests while it stands at the European Union’s helm. I assess this question based on the case of the first Visegrád Group member to assume the EU Council presidency: the Czech Republic. Examining three specific policy areas – the reinvention of the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood policy; the strengthening of EU energy security; and the incorporation of a stronger human rights and external democratisation approach into EU foreign policy – this case study presents a mixed picture. It confirms the potential of the Visegrád Group to be a vehicle for furthering the national preferences of one Group member while it holds the rotating EU Council presidency. Whether or not this potential is fully realised will depend primarily on the degree to which the interests of the four Visegrád countries converge.

scholarly journals O Território Econômico Alemão na Europa Central: análise dos investimentos estrangeiros recebidos pelo Grupo de Visegrado a partir de Hilferding | The German Economic Territory in Central Europe: analysis of foreign investments received by the Visegrado Group based on Hilferding

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. e58878
Author(s):  
Letícia Figueiredo Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
German Industry ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Dependent Position ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
Shed Light

Formado por Polônia, Hungria, República Tcheca e Eslováquia, o Grupo de Visegrado é uma área privilegiada de destino dos investimentos alemães, integrando com a indústria alemã a maior cadeia produtiva da Europa. Visando responder como se organizam as relações econômicas entre o grupo e a Alemanha, apresentamos a hipótese de que Berlim converteu os países da Europa Central em parte do seu território econômico através de exportações massivas de capital. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as relações de produção entre Alemanha e Visegrado, de modo a lançar luz sobre a posição de dependência do último. Como referencial teórico, recorremos à obra de Hilferding (1910) e, como metodologia, empregamos uma análise quantitativa dos fluxos de capitais alemães para a região, além de uma análise qualitativa dos efeitos desse processo. Esperamos demonstrar que o grupo desempenha o papel de fábrica dos produtos alemães para o mercado europeu.Palavras-chave: Visegrad Group; Germany; economic territory.ABSTRACTFormed by Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Visegrad Group is a privileged area of destination for German investments, integrating with the German industry the lar-gest supply chain in Europe. Aiming to answer how the economic relations between the group and Germany are organized, we present the hypothesis that Berlin converted the countries of Central Europe into part of its economic territory through massive capital exports. This article’s purpose is to analyze the production relations between Germany and Visegrad, in order to shed light on the latter's dependent position. As our theoretical framework, we resort to the work of Hilferding (1910) and, as our methodology, we employ a quantitative analysis of German capital flows to the region, as well as a qualitative analysis of the effects of this process. We expect to demonstrate that the group plays the role of a factory for German products in the European market.Keywords: Visegrad Group; Germany; economic territory. Recebido em: 02 abr. 2021 | Aceito em: 08 jun. 2021. 

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