Business Economics Group
Strategically placed within Wageningen University & Research, the Business Economics Group (BEC) performs research and teaches across a wide range of aspects of agricultural business economics and food supply chains.
Research
The chair group Business Economics carries out fundamental and applied research focusing on economic and management problems within the food chain. Research is categorized in the following research themes:
- Economics and management of farms and agribusiness
- Economics of animal health, plant health and food safety
- Economics of sustainable agriculture
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Education
The Business Economics group is composed of a professional team with a wide range of specializations. Students receive solid training in business economics providing them with the knowledge to address research questions in the area of the economics of farms and agribusinesses, animal health, plant health, food safety and sustainable agriculture. We encourage students to develop their own interests and to think critically.
EAAE Seminar: Prospects for agricultural insurance in Europe
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Section Business Science
Latest publications
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Corporate social responsibility and operational inefficiency
Sustainability 10 (2018)7. - ISSN 2071-1050
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Measuring corporate sustainability performance– the case of European food and beverage companies
Journal of Cleaner Production 195 (2018). - ISSN 0959-6526 - p. 734 - 743.
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Considering milk price volatility for investment decisions on the farm level after European milk quota abolition
Journal of Dairy Science (2018). - ISSN 0022-0302 - 9 p.