Contracts in Hungarian Food Chains

Imre Fertő, Zoltán Bakucs (), Sándor Elek and Csaba Forgacs
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Sándor Elek: Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

from University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper

Abstract: The paper analyses small and medium firms’ contractual relations along the food chain in central region of Hungary using survey data. We focus on two specific aspects of contracts: type of contract and contract fulfilment. Contrary to previous studies which concentrated only on producers’ behaviour we investigate three stages of food chain: producers, processors, and retailers. Our results confirm that firm and managerial attributes has important role in contract decisions. Moreover, transactional characteristics also influence the existence of written contract. Our estimations also reveal that contract fulfilment is significantly affected by the design of the contract. Interestingly the impact of branch specific characteristics has only limited role explaining contract decisions and contract design.

Keywords: contractual relationship; agri-food chain; SMEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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