Food Processing Industries in Visegrad Countries in Global Value Chains (1995–2018)

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.18778/1508-2008.28.06" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.18778/1508-2008.28.06</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1508-2008.28.06" target="_blank" >10.18778/1508-2008.28.06</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Food Processing Industries in Visegrad Countries in Global Value Chains (1995–2018)

Original language description

The aim of the article is to evaluate the position in global value chains (GVCs) of food processing industries in the Visegrad countries (V4; Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia) between 1995 and 2018. To identify the intensity and forms of integration in GVC of these industries in each country and to compare it to the other V4 countries, we employed complex methods to measure the importance of foreign demand, (backward and forward) participation and position in GVCs, the territorial context of integration, and shifting patterns of the integration into GVCs using data from the TiVA database. Our findings revealed variations in the integration of food processing industries in GVCs in the V4 countries. Common characteristics and trends were observed (e.g., increasing participation) until the Great Recession before stalling, increasing integration into European value chains, and absorption of foreign value added mostly from services industries. These trends are consistent with findings from previous studies. A significant contribution of this study is that it reveals how food exports from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia are mostly linked to increased GVC participation. Notably, food processing industries in Hungary and Slovakia have continued to increase their participation in GVCs even after the Great Recession. Given the evidence of beneficial economic outcomes from increased participation in GVCs, this implies that the food processing industries in Hungary and Slovakia will become more competitive. Food industries in Poland and Hungary are positioning themselves relatively more down-stream in the GVCs, while shifts in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are increasingly upstream. Given evidence of beneficial economic outcomes from increased participation in GVCs being more down-stream in the GVCs, the V4 countries will need to evaluate how their trajectories may impact the future wellbeing of businesses and employees working in these industries.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40500 - Other agricultural sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe

ISSN

1508-2008

e-ISSN

2082-6737

Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

97-117

UT code for WoS article

001445758600006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105001016738