The agri-food frameworks have specific characteristics (production units with small
dimensions and in great number with implications in the respective markets) that call for …

Research background: Anti-consumption practices, in particular consumers' reluctance to
buy (RTB) foreign products, are increasingly common in today's globalised and …

Poland is one of the largest agricultural producers within European Union (EU). Since
joining EU in 2004, Poland has significantly increased its agri-food trade turnover and …

Market competition is considered to have a significant impact on product diversification, but
related issues are rarely discussed on a city scale. To analyze the diversification of export …

The history of cocoa production in West Africa shows that commercial cocoa production
began in the Gold Coast (Ghana) in the 1890s. By the 1920s, Ghana had become the …

How does an underdeveloped country enter new industries? This study seeks to answer this
question by arguing that the country learns the diversification paths from its rivals with similar …

Based on the Export Similarity Index (ESI), this study examines the export competition
pattern among Chinese cities in the global market from 2000 to 2017, analyzing the …

Based on the classic definition of export similarity index (ESI), the similarity degree of export
products of 113 countries in the world market and its correlation with geographical distance …