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Faculty for Business Economics and Finance, Educons University , Sremska Kamenica , Serbia
Faculty for Management, Metropolitan University , Belgrade , Serbia
This paper explains the importance of capacity building to improve the competitiveness of food producers. We first consider a more precise definition of the concept of industry competitiveness, especially with the aim of describing the most important pillars on which the growth and development of companies in the food industry is based. It is pointed out that the development of information technologies in the last thirty years on a global scale has significantly changed and modified the environment in which companies operate in the food industry, which has, among other things, motivated the emergence of models for managing production and distribution activities in the food industry. Under the influence of information technologies, but also of many processes related to comparative prices of production factors on the world market, on the one hand, as well as numerous mergers and acquisitions of industrial enterprises, on the other hand, this century has seen the transformation of a global industrial sector dominated by large conglomerates. The attention of the management of industrial companies in this period has grown increasingly focused on the development of capabilities, as a form of improving the competitiveness of not only these businesses, but also of small food producers. The focus of management on capacity building is primarily aimed at increasing added value. However, it should be noted that the production phase of the global value chain is becoming relatively standardized and is therefore characterized by ever lower yields. At the same time, in the global value chain of industrial production, activities that precede direct production (research and development, design) and follow the process of direct production (marketing, logistics) are gaining in importance.
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