Abstract

GUZMAN, Isidoro; DE-NIEVES-NIETO, Carmen  and  BRIONES-PENALVER, Antonio-Juan. Evaluating Efficiency in the Agribusiness Sector in Spain: An Empirical Study on the Region of Murcia. Cuad. Desarro. Rural [online]. 2013, vol.10, n.71, pp.81-100. ISSN 0122-1450.

Businesses use their resources and abilities to maximise their efficiency, and the implementation of innovative tactics has become common in recent years. Based on the evaluation of a performance model based on the variables of the Cobb-Douglas production function, the present paper intends to empirically confront the ways in which Spanish agribusinesses and farming companies, particularly the ones located in the Murcia region, can improve their management through their efficiency and their relation to innovation.

Keywords : Agribusinesses; Efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis; Production Change; Malmquist Productivity Index; Animal industry; rural social change; land reform; labor productivity-measurements; Malmquist index; Murcia (Spain).

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