Firm Size as a Determinant of Firm Performance: The Case of Swine Raising

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://online.agris.cz/files/2016/agris_on-line_2016_3_kuncova_hedija_fiala.pdf" target="_blank" >http://online.agris.cz/files/2016/agris_on-line_2016_3_kuncova_hedija_fiala.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7160/aol.2016.080308" target="_blank" >10.7160/aol.2016.080308</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Firm Size as a Determinant of Firm Performance: The Case of Swine Raising

Original language description

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the effect of firm size to the economic performance of firm belonging to the raising of swine sector (CZ-NACE 01.460). The economic performance is assessed using multiple- criteria evaluation of alternatives methods where the selected coefficients of the profitability ratios, labour productivity and operating ratio are used as the indicator of economic performance. To assess the relationship between firm size and firm performance, the linear regression model is used. The study uses data collected from the database Albertina CZ Gold Edition for the year 2013 that are provided by Bisnode company and from Business Register. The results showed that the larger firms reached higher economic performance compared with smaller ones. These finding indicates that economies of scale are likely to play an important role in sector of raising swine.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics

ISSN

1804-1930

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

77-89

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84992108976