Efficiency improvement of the Czech and Polish processors of poultry meat in 2008-2013
2016
Spicka, J., University of Economics, Prague (Czech Republic). Faculty of Business Administration
The consumption of the poultry meat in the Czech Republic has been increasingly covered by imports from Poland. The low competitiveness of the Czech companies could be rooted in the production efficiency of poultry meat processors. Therefore, the aim of the paper was to evaluate the technical efficiency improvement of the Czech and Polish corporate poultry processors. The analysis of 54 medium and large poultry meat processors in the NACE 10.12 covered the period 2008–2013. The Malmquist index, the Data Envelopment analysis and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of the differences between the Czech and Polish companies revealed that improvement of the production efficiency of poultry meat processors in Poland was significantly higher than in the Czech Republic. The change of material and energy productivity significantly differed between two countries in contrast to labour and capital productivity. The author expected that the large investments in technology upgrading and concentration would further strengthen the position of Poland as the one of the largest European poultry producers.
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