Persistence of Profitability in Family-Owned Food Businesses

Michael A. Boland () and Dustin Pendell

No 19216, 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: We examine firm profitability in the food economy and determine the source of variance of firm profitability in family-owned and non-family-owned food processing firms. The results indicate firm effects dominate in explaining the variance in the business-segment performance in the food economy. More specifically, we find family-owned firms compared to non-family-owned firms have a higher percentage of total variance in the business-segment performance explained by yearly effects, industy effects, and firm effects for both the random-effects and fixed-effects models.

Keywords: Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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