Economic Efficiency in the Tunisian Olive Oil Sector

Domingo Fernández-Uclés, Saida Elfkih, Adoración Mozas-Moral, Enrique Bernal-Jurado, Miguel Jesús Medina-Viruel and Saker Ben Abdallah
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Domingo Fernández-Uclés: Department of Business Organization, Marketing and Sociology, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaén, Spain
Saida Elfkih: Institute De L’olivier, Sfax 3000, Tunisia
Adoración Mozas-Moral: Department of Business Organization, Marketing and Sociology, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaén, Spain
Enrique Bernal-Jurado: Department of Economics, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaén, Spain
Miguel Jesús Medina-Viruel: Department of Statistics, Econometrics, Operational Research, Business Organization and Applied Economics, University of Cordoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Saker Ben Abdallah: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Cordoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Agriculture, 2020, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: This study aims to assess the economic efficiency of Tunisian olive oil firms in order to identify the organizational and technological variables that are directly associated with greater efficiency. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and fuzzy sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method were used to achieve this. We find the managing director’s education level and information and communication technologies (ICT) training, the longevity of the company in inverse relationship with efficiency, the company’s presence on and use of virtual social networks, and the outsourcing of ICT management in combination have significant explanatory power in the companies that display greater economic efficiency.

Keywords: olive oil sector; information and communication technologies (ICT); efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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