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The reconfiguration of post‐Soviet food industries: Evidence from Ukraine and Moldova
Author(s) -
Gorton Matthew,
White John,
Chernyshova Svetlana,
Skripnik Alexander,
Vinichenko Tatiana,
Dumitrasco Mikhail,
Soltan Galina
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/agr.10076
Subject(s) - econlit , control reconfiguration , agribusiness , procurement , cluster (spacecraft) , agriculture , successor cardinal , empirical evidence , government (linguistics) , business , food sector , agrarian society , economics , industrial organization , economic system , marketing , political science , geography , computer science , mathematical analysis , programming language , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , medline , archaeology , law , embedded system , epistemology
The 1990s witnessed widespread changes in the nature of food supply chain actors, government policies, and markets in the successor states of the Soviet Union. These changes have resulted in a more differentiated set of actors, but there is relatively little empirical knowledge on the reconfiguration of food processors and their relationships with agricultural processors. This article attempts to deal with this gap by researching structures and procurement relationships in the Ukraine and Moldova. Enterprise level survey data on the food‐processing sector in Moldova and the Ukraine reveals a diverse set of actors. Cluster analysis is employed to better characterize these different groups of processors. A three‐cluster solution is adopted, and the main characteristics, supply patterns, and dynamics of each cluster are further analyzed. [EconLit citations: L660, L100]. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 19: 409–424, 2003.